Talk:Ngwenya 2501 (2002)
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Evidentiary scope
The catalogue records the collector A. M. Ngwenya, the date 18 February 2002, an altitude of 416 m, a shrub three metres high, and the locality Thuthwini District, Ntimbankulu/Dweshula Village, c. 20m from KZN road construction plant. That gives a position and a size. It names no habitat, use or note on cultivation, so nothing shows whether the plant was cultivated, grew wild or had escaped. The accession is classified Unknown. 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 -30.533333, 30.266667 is the one the herbarium database, BODATSA, publishes for this sheet. BODATSA gives its accuracy, 100m, which marks a field reading; the quarter-degree square 3030CB is carried beside it in the database. The point falls in KwaZulu-Natal, the province the page states. Basis: holder's georeference. Uncertainty: about 100 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.
Source discrepancies
The growth-form field gives a shrub three metres high. That is tall for the species but not impossible for a well-grown plant, unlike the eight-metre tree recorded for Schuhardt DS02383 in the same year. The figure is quoted as the database gives it.
Source citations remain in the article. Éloise 07:22, 24 September 2026 (+07)