Stebbins s.n., Somerset East (1908)

Stebbins herbarium gathering, Somerset East (1908)
Stebbins s.n., Somerset East (1908)
The sheet held by the Willard Sherman Turrell Herbarium as 000330446 (CC0)
At a Glance
Classification	Unknown
Location
Country	South Africa
Province/State	Eastern Cape
Locality	Somerset East
Coordinates	-32.72, 25.59
Point type	Settlement point
Uncertainty	about 6 km
Collection
Method	Herbarium specimen
Sourcing Type	Historical
Date	February 1908
Collector	Inez Stebbins
Specimen
Repository	Willard Sherman Turrell Herbarium (MU)
Catalogue Number	000330446
Collector Number	s.n.
Scientific Name	Cannabis sativa L.

Year at a glance (computed)

Point

32.72° S, 25.59° E

Elevation used

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

Köppen class

BSk

Clock

UTC+2

Month	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Day and night
First light	04:57	05:28	05:53	06:14	06:34	06:50	06:51	06:30	05:52	05:12	04:42	04:36
Sunrise	05:24	05:54	06:17	06:39	07:00	07:18	07:18	06:56	06:17	05:37	05:09	05:04
Sunset	19:29	19:10	18:37	17:57	17:27	17:18	17:29	17:49	18:09	18:29	18:56	19:22
Last light	19:56	19:35	19:02	18:22	17:54	17:45	17:56	18:15	18:33	18:54	19:23	19:50
Daylighth	14h04	13h15	12h19	11h18	10h28	10h00	10h11	10h54	11h52	12h52	13h47	14h17
Changemin/day	−1.1	−1.9	−2.0	−1.9	−1.4	−0.3	+0.9	+1.7	+2.0	+2.0	+1.5	+0.3
Temperature
Avg daily high°C	28	28	26	24	21	18	18	20	22	23	25	27
Avg daily low°C	15	16	14	12	9	6	6	7	8	10	12	14
Swing°C	13	12	12	12	12	12	13	13	14	13	13	13
Water and light
Rainmm	61	56	54	45	20	21	20	27	28	53	61	63
VPDkPa	1.1	1.0	0.9	0.9	0.8	0.7	0.7	0.7	0.8	0.8	0.9	1.0
Sunlightmol/m²/d	50	44	37	29	23	20	22	27	35	42	48	52
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

Stebbins s.n., Somerset East is a herbarium accession of Cannabis sativa collected at Somerset East in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, in February 1908 by Inez Stebbins. The Willard Sherman Turrell Herbarium (MU) holds the sheet as 000330446.

The record

The catalogue gives the collector as Inez Stebbins, the date verbatim as February 1908, the province as Eastern Cape and the locality as Somerset East, to which it adds the note that the town was renamed KwaNojoli in 2023.

The sheet

The specimen is a bare stem fragment. Its label is a modern printed card headed WILLARD SHERMAN TURRELL HERBARIUM (MU) and Plants of Southern Africa, giving the name as Cannabis sativa with the family (Moraceae), the locality as SOUTH AFRICA: Somerset East, and the collection line as leg. Inez Stebbins / February 1908. The original label is not on the sheet, so the card is a transcription of a source that cannot be checked here.

Specimen and identification

The determination is Cannabis sativa L. The printed card places the plant in Moraceae, a family assignment now superseded by Cannabaceae.