Moll 5521 (1971)

Moll 5521 herbarium gathering, Gwaleweni Forest (1971)
Moll 5521 (1971)
Moll 5521, the sheet held by the Naturalis Biodiversity Center as WAG.1455356 (CC0)
At a Glance
Classification	Unknown
Location
Country	South Africa
Province/State	KwaZulu-Natal
Locality	Gwaleweni Forest
Coordinates	-27.375, 32.125
Point type	Holder's georeference
Uncertainty	about 19 km
Elevation	609 m
Collection
Method	Herbarium specimen
Sourcing Type	Historical
Date	18 October 1971
Collector	Moll
Specimen
Repository	KwaZulu-Natal Herbarium (NH)
Catalogue Number	NH0069357-0
Collector Number	Moll 5521
Scientific Name	Cannabis sativa L. var. sativa

Year at a glance (computed)

Point

27.38° S, 32.12° E

Elevation used

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

Köppen class

BSh

Clock

UTC+2

Month	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Day and night
First light	04:44	05:11	05:29	05:44	05:59	06:13	06:15	05:58	05:26	04:52	04:27	04:25
Sunrise	05:10	05:35	05:53	06:08	06:24	06:39	06:41	06:22	05:49	05:16	04:53	04:51
Sunset	18:51	18:37	18:09	17:35	17:11	17:04	17:14	17:30	17:44	17:58	18:20	18:42
Last light	19:17	19:01	18:33	17:59	17:36	17:30	17:39	17:54	18:07	18:22	18:45	19:09
Daylighth	13h41	13h02	12h17	11h27	10h47	10h25	10h34	11h08	11h54	12h43	13h28	13h51
Changemin/day	−0.9	−1.5	−1.6	−1.5	−1.1	−0.2	+0.8	+1.4	+1.6	+1.6	+1.2	+0.3
Temperature
Avg daily high°C	31	30	30	28	26	24	24	26	27	27	28	30
Avg daily low°C	22	22	21	18	15	12	12	14	16	17	19	20
Swing°C	9	9	9	9	11	12	12	12	11	10	10	9
Water and light
Rainmm	95	87	74	37	28	16	10	17	26	62	88	85
VPDkPa	1.3	1.3	1.2	1.1	1.0	0.9	0.9	1.0	1.1	1.1	1.2	1.3
Sunlightmol/m²/d	42	40	36	31	27	24	25	29	34	35	38	41
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

Moll 5521 is a herbarium accession of Cannabis sativa collected at Gwaleweni Forest in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, on 18 October 1971 by Moll. The KwaZulu-Natal Herbarium (NH) holds the sheet as NH0069357-0. A duplicate at the Naturalis Biodiversity Center, WAG.1455356, names a second collector and records the plant as cultivated.

Collection and locality

Durban's entry gives the date as 18 October 1971, the locality as Gwaleweni Forest. and the altitude as 609 m. It names one collector, Moll, and records a second, Nel, in its additional-collectors field.

What the Naturalis label adds

The Naturalis card gives the collectors as Moll & Nel, the number as 5521, the date as 18/10/71, the altitude as c.2 000ft and the note Gwaleweni Forest. Forest. Cultivated herb in small forest clearing. The statement that the plant was cultivated, and that it stood in a clearing inside forest, appears on the label and in neither South African catalogue.

Specimen and identification

Both sheets are filed as Cannabis sativa. Durban adds the autonym var. sativa.