Talk:Bester 11097 (2012)

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Page scope

Bester 11097 (2012) is about a single collection of cannabis, a seed lot or a herbarium specimen: where and when it was gathered, by whom, and what the sources say about the plants.

Data verification

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Evidentiary scope

The catalogue gives the collector S. P. Bester, the number 11097, the date 23 February 2012, the altitude 776 m and the habitat Hill slope. Bioregion: Lowveld. Vegetation type: Northern Zululand Sourveld. Gentle slope. The habitat line describes the ground and the vegetation region. It says nothing about cultivation, use or a local name, so nothing shows whether the plant was cultivated, grew wild or had escaped. The accession is classified Unknown. It shows no continuing population and no living germplasm holding, and no conservation priority is assigned.

The Botanical Database of Southern Africa publishes no image of this sheet. Its image count is zero, and so is the image count of all 1,361,966 rows in the database: the store is empty, and SANBI's own site still lists plant images among its plans. The accession carries no image until the herbarium supplies a scan.

Georeferencing

The point -27.847972, 31.530611 is the one the herbarium database, BODATSA, publishes for this sheet. BODATSA gives its accuracy, 50m, which marks a field reading; the quarter-degree square 2731DC is carried beside it in the database. The locality string carries the position in degrees, minutes and seconds, which converts to the point the database publishes, so the coordinate came off the sheet. It falls in KwaZulu-Natal, the province the page states. Basis: collection point from label. Uncertainty: about 50 m.

Editorial treatment

The KwaZulu-Natal Herbarium publishes no per-specimen page. Five permalink shapes were tried for a sheet and all answered 404, so the accession cites the database itself and the barcode identifies the sheet.

Nongoma is in the Zululand district, the same region the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew object catalogued from Zululand in 1888 came from.

Source citations remain in the article. Éloise 07:24, 24 September 2026 (+07)