Talk:Forbes s.n., Durban (1921)
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Evidentiary scope
The database gives the collector H. Forbes, the date 24 March 1921 and the locality as Durban. "Insangu". The quotation marks are the catalogue's own, and Insangu is the isiZulu name for the plant. The entry gives no finer locality, habitat, use or note on cultivation, and the label has not been read, so nothing shows whether the plant was cultivated, grew wild or had escaped. The accession is classified Unknown until the label can be read. No conservation priority is assigned.
The Botanical Database of Southern Africa publishes no image of this sheet. Its image count is zero, and so is the image count of all 1,361,966 rows in the database: the store is empty, and SANBI's own site still lists plant images among its plans. The accession carries no image until the herbarium supplies a scan.
Georeferencing
The database names Durban and nothing within it. The point -29.86, 31.01 is the city of Durban, OpenStreetMap node 27564996. The 2011 census gives the main place of Durban 225.91 km² (English Wikipedia, Durban), a circle about 8.5 km in radius, and 1 km is added for the rounding of the point. It places the gathering in the city, not at a spot within it. An earlier version of this note gave no point because the database publishes no coordinate for the sheet. Basis: settlement point. Uncertainty: about 10 km.
Editorial treatment
This entry is in SANBI's own POSA front end but not in the BODATSA feed that reaches GBIF, so a GBIF sweep misses it. Ten of the Compton Herbarium's fifteen Cannabis entries are in that position, against five that the feed carries. Every one was checked against GBIF by catalogue number and returned no match.
BODATSA publishes no per-specimen page, so the accession cites the database and the barcode identifies the sheet.
The vernacular is recorded in the local_name field as well as quoted in the article, because it is the substance of the entry rather than an incidental. It is given in the spelling this sheet uses.
The collector is Forbes, H. here and Forbes, H.M.L. on the Durban sheet of 1924. Whether they are one person is not settled by the catalogues.
Source citations remain in the article. Éloise 07:14, 24 September 2026 (+07)