NH0074922, Gillitts (1924)

Herbarium gathering at Gillitts, collector recorded only as Indian collector (1924)
NH0074922, Gillitts (1924)
At a Glance
Classification	Unknown
Location
Country	South Africa
Province/State	KwaZulu-Natal
Locality	Gillitts
Coordinates	-29.875, 30.875
Point type	Holder's georeference
Uncertainty	about 19 km
Elevation	600 m
Collection
Method	Herbarium specimen
Sourcing Type	Historical
Date	11 June 1924
Collector	Indian collector
Specimen
Repository	KwaZulu-Natal Herbarium (NH)
Catalogue Number	NH0074922-0
Collector Number	s.n. (NH74922)
Scientific Name	Cannabis sativa L. var. sativa

Year at a glance (computed)

Point

29.88° S, 30.88° E

Elevation used

183 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	06:25	06:06	05:31	04:54	04:27	04:23
Sunrise	05:10	05:37	05:57	06:15	06:34	06:50	06:51	06:31	05:55	05:19	04:53	04:50
Sunset	19:01	18:45	18:15	17:38	17:12	17:04	17:14	17:32	17:48	18:05	18:30	18:53
Last light	19:28	19:10	18:39	18:02	17:37	17:30	17:40	17:57	18:12	18:30	18:56	19:21
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	23	22	21	22	23	23	24	25
Avg daily low°C	20	21	20	18	15	12	12	13	15	16	18	19
Swing°C	6	6	6	7	8	9	10	9	8	7	6	6
Water and light
Rainmm	127	116	91	58	38	24	34	38	65	97	114	122
VPDkPa	1.0	1.0	1.0	0.9	0.9	0.8	0.8	0.8	0.8	0.8	0.9	0.9
Sunlightmol/m²/d	41	40	35	30	26	23	25	29	33	36	39	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

NH0074922, Gillitts is a herbarium accession of Cannabis sativa collected at Gillitts in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, on 11 June 1924 by Indian collector. The KwaZulu-Natal Herbarium (NH) holds the sheet as NH0074922-0.

Collection and locality

The database gives the date as 11 June 1924, the locality as Gillitts. and the altitude as 600 m. Gillitts is in the hills west of Durban.

The collector

The collector is given as Indian collector, with no name. The gathering was therefore made by someone the herbarium recorded by ethnicity rather than by name, in the language of a 1924 colonial catalogue.

Specimen and identification

The sheet is filed as Cannabis sativa L. var. sativa.