Talk:Ward 6218 (1967)
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Evidentiary scope
Ward's field note, copied into the Durban catalogue, reads Herb, erect, branched, 92cm tall, in disturbed pale sand, in partial light shade. Only 1 seen, male. and adds [Apparently accidentally planted by man - former eating and resting site of gang recently constructing pipe line.] The place is Durban District: Isipingo Flats (E). and the date 30 March 1967. The plant was a volunteer on disturbed sand, not a stand, and grew outside cultivation. The accession is classified Feral, by inference from the field note; the note puts the plant down to seed dropped at a rest site and does not say where that seed came from. A single gathering does not establish a continuing population, and no conservation priority is assigned.
Edinburgh's sheet is a University of Natal card. The Bews Herbarium (NU) is largely undigitised, so its own copy of this gathering could not be looked for.
Georeferencing
BODATSA records the coordinate's accuracy as 50m, which marks a field reading. The square code 2930DD is carried alongside it in the database.
Editorial treatment
The KwaZulu-Natal Herbarium publishes no per-specimen page. Five permalink shapes were tried for a sheet and all answered 404, so the accession cites the database itself and the barcode identifies the sheet.
Source discrepancies
The label gives the position as 29 degrees 58 minutes south, 30 degrees 57 minutes east, which is about -29.967, 30.950. BODATSA's coordinate is -29.966667, 30.95, so the catalogue's point is the label's, converted. That makes this one of the few coordinates in the batch that came off a sheet rather than out of a gazetteer.
The habitat field says 15 to 20 ft and the altitude field says 5 m. Those agree.
Source citations remain in the article. Éloise 07:23, 24 September 2026 (+07)