Talk:Ward 6322 (1967)

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Page scope

Ward 6322 (1967) is about a single collection of cannabis, a seed lot or a herbarium specimen: where and when it was gathered, by whom, and what the sources say about the plants.

Data verification

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Discussion

Evidentiary scope

The catalogue's plant description reads Much branched suffrutex, c. 1m tall in disturbed loamy sand. (Female flowers). (suffrutex: a plant woody at the base), at Durban District. Isipingo Flats (E). on 19 December 1967. The plant grew on disturbed ground, outside cultivation. The accession is classified Feral, by inference from the catalogue; the catalogue does not say whether the plants descended from a crop. A single gathering does not establish a continuing population, and 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 coordinate is the centre of a quarter-degree square, not a field fix. BODATSA records the accuracy as 1/4dg and stores the square's code alongside it; a quarter-degree square is about 27 km across. Of the 61 georeferenced Cannabis rows in BODATSA, all 41 flagged 1/4dg fall exactly on a square's centre and none of the other 20 does. The point is carried at the precision the database gives it, with the accuracy stated here. BODATSA's LatLongChecked field is null on every Cannabis row, so no Cannabis coordinate in BODATSA has been verified by the herbarium.

The square is 2930DD.

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.

The collector returned to Isipingo Flats nine months after Ward 6218, which was a male plant; this one is recorded with female flowers. The two are separate gatherings and separate accessions.

Source citations remain in the article. Éloise 07:23, 24 September 2026 (+07)