Ward 6086 (1967)

Ward 6086 herbarium gathering, Umbilo, Durban (1967)
Ward 6086 (1967)
At a Glance
Classification	Unknown
Location
Country	South Africa
Province/State	KwaZulu-Natal
Locality	Umbilo
Coordinates	-29.866667, 30.966667
Point type	Holder's georeference
Uncertainty	about 1 km
Elevation	82 m
Collection
Method	Herbarium specimen
Sourcing Type	Historical
Date	20 February 1967
Collector	C. J. Ward
Specimen
Repository	KwaZulu-Natal Herbarium (NH)
Catalogue Number	NH0059277-1; NH0059277-2
Collector Number	Ward, C.J. 6086
Scientific Name	Cannabis sativa L. var. sativa

Year at a glance (computed)

Point

29.87° S, 30.97° E

Elevation used

53 m computed, GMTED2010 (1 km), at this point

Köppen class

Cfa

Clock

UTC+2

Month	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Day and night
First light	04:43	05:12	05:33	05:51	06:08	06:23	06:24	06:06	05:31	04:54	04:27	04:23
Sunrise	05:09	05:36	05:57	06:15	06:33	06:49	06:50	06:30	05:55	05:18	04:53	04:50
Sunset	19:01	18:44	18:15	17:38	17:11	17:03	17:14	17:32	17:48	18:05	18:29	18:53
Last light	19:27	19:09	18:39	18:02	17:37	17:30	17:40	17:56	18:12	18:29	18:55	19:20
Daylighth	13h51	13h08	12h18	11h23	10h38	10h14	10h23	11h01	11h53	12h47	13h37	14h03
Changemin/day	−1.0	−1.7	−1.8	−1.7	−1.2	−0.2	+0.8	+1.5	+1.8	+1.8	+1.4	+0.3
Temperature
Avg daily high°C	26	27	26	25	24	22	22	22	22	23	24	25
Avg daily low°C	21	22	21	19	16	14	13	14	16	17	18	20
Swing°C	5	5	5	6	7	8	8	8	7	6	6	5
Water and light
Rainmm	126	115	92	58	41	24	35	41	65	96	112	119
VPDkPa	1.1	1.1	1.0	0.9	0.9	0.8	0.8	0.8	0.8	0.9	0.9	1.0
Sunlightmol/m²/d	43	41	36	30	26	23	24	29	33	37	40	43
Field cycle
Cycle

• Planting
• Growing
• Harvest
• Not recorded / off season

No field cycle is recorded on this accession's page.

Day and night computed from the sun's position on the 15th of each month; climate normals 1981–2010 from CHELSA V2.1 · About these figures

Ward 6086 is a herbarium accession of Cannabis sativa collected at Umbilo in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, on 20 February 1967 by C. J. Ward. The KwaZulu-Natal Herbarium (NH) holds two sheets, NH0059277-1 and NH0059277-2. The National Herbarium (PRE) holds a third sheet as PRE0372442-0 and the Claude E. Phillips Herbarium (DOV) a fourth, whose label carries everything the Delaware catalogue omits.

Collection and locality

Durban's entry gives the date as 20 February 1967, the locality as Durban District: Umbilo. and the altitude as 82 m. Its plant description reads HT: 2.10, HTUNIT: m , GRFRMS: Shrub. The herbarium holds two sheets of the gathering, NH0059277-1 and NH0059277-2.

The Delaware sheet, and what its catalogue omits

A fourth sheet reached the Claude E. Phillips Herbarium (DOV) at Delaware State University by way of the Bailey Hortorium at Cornell. Its catalogue entry records the country as South Africa and nothing else: no collector, no number, no date, no locality. The sheet itself carries a printed National Herbarium, Pretoria card giving the grid reference 2930DD (PIETERMARITZBURG), the region NATAL, the collector and number C.J. WARD 6086, the date 20/2/1967, the altitude c.27 ft, and the note Durban District, Umbilo. Shrub, approximately 2.1 m tall, in old garden, red slightly clayey sand. Only one seen.

Specimen and identification

All four sheets are filed as Cannabis sativa L. var. sativa. Delaware's identification remark reads DOV filed-as name.