Talk:Watt 5720 (1881)

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Page scope

Watt 5720 (1881) is an Accession — the atomic unit of documentation representing a specific collection event. All scientific data lives here.

Data verification

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Evidentiary scope

This is the thinnest of the Watt sheets. It fixes a cannabis plant in Sikkim in a named year and nothing further: no month, no locality within the state, no elevation, no habitat and no remark. It is retained because the collector and the number are unambiguous and because Watt's Sikkim work is otherwise sparsely represented, not because it supports a claim about where or how cannabis grew there. It records no local variety name, no preparation and no use, and it establishes neither a continuing population nor a living germplasm holding, so it supports neither a landrace nor a feral classification. No conservation priority is assigned.

Georeferencing

Sikkim is a state of about 7,000 square kilometres spanning ground from roughly 300 m to over 8,000 m, so the record places the gathering only at state level. No coordinate is asserted.

These notes were moved from the accession article during the article-Talk cleanup of 16 September 2026. Source citations remain in the article. Éloise 11:09, 16 September 2026 (+07)