Bester 11097 (2012)

Bester 11097 herbarium gathering, Othandweni, Nongoma (2012)
Bester 11097 (2012)
At a Glance
Classification	Unknown
Location
Country	South Africa
Province/State	KwaZulu-Natal
Locality	Othandweni
Coordinates	-27.847972, 31.530611
Point type	Collection point from label
Uncertainty	about 50 m
Elevation	776 m
Collection
Method	Herbarium specimen
Sourcing Type	Historical
Date	23 February 2012
Collector	S. P. Bester
Specimen
Repository	KwaZulu-Natal Herbarium (NH)
Catalogue Number	NH0138116-0
Collector Number	Bester, S.P. 11097
Scientific Name	Cannabis sativa L. var. sativa
Identified By	M. C. Makgakga

Year at a glance (computed)

Point

27.85° S, 31.53° E

Elevation used

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

Köppen class

Cwa

Clock

UTC+2

Month	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Day and night
First light	04:45	05:12	05:31	05:47	06:03	06:17	06:19	06:01	05:29	04:54	04:29	04:26
Sunrise	05:11	05:37	05:55	06:11	06:27	06:42	06:44	06:25	05:52	05:18	04:54	04:52
Sunset	18:54	18:40	18:12	17:37	17:13	17:06	17:16	17:32	17:46	18:01	18:23	18:46
Last light	19:20	19:04	18:35	18:01	17:37	17:31	17:41	17:56	18:10	18:25	18:49	19:12
Daylighth	13h43	13h03	12h17	11h26	10h45	10h23	10h32	11h07	11h54	12h43	13h29	13h53
Changemin/day	−0.9	−1.6	−1.7	−1.6	−1.1	−0.2	+0.8	+1.4	+1.6	+1.6	+1.2	+0.3
Temperature
Avg daily high°C	27	26	26	24	22	20	20	22	23	23	24	26
Avg daily low°C	17	18	16	14	11	8	8	10	12	13	15	16
Swing°C	9	9	9	10	11	12	12	12	12	10	10	10
Water and light
Rainmm	135	116	90	45	28	25	14	26	39	109	130	123
VPDkPa	0.9	0.9	0.9	0.8	0.8	0.7	0.7	0.8	0.8	0.8	0.8	0.9
Sunlightmol/m²/d	40	39	35	31	28	25	26	30	34	34	36	39
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

Bester 11097 is a herbarium accession of Cannabis sativa collected at Othandweni in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, on 23 February 2012 by S. P. Bester. The KwaZulu-Natal Herbarium (NH) holds the sheet as NH0138116-0.

Collection and locality

The entry gives the date as 23 February 2012 and the locality as Nongoma District. Othandweni area. 27°50'52.7"S 31°31'50.2"E., with the habitat Hill slope. Bioregion: Lowveld. Vegetation type: Northern Zululand Sourveld. Gentle slope. and the altitude 776 m. The National Herbarium (PRE) holds a second sheet as PRE0860985-0 with the same fields.

Field description

The database's plant description reads Herb. Height: 1.20 m.

Specimen and identification

Both sheets are filed as Cannabis sativa L. var. sativa; the Pretoria sheet names M. C. Makgakga as determiner.