Talk:Ward 6086 (1967)
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Evidentiary scope
The Durban herbarium's catalogue gives the locality Durban District: Umbilo., the date 20 February 1967 and an altitude of 82 m. A fourth sheet of the gathering, at the Claude E. Phillips Herbarium (Delaware), carries a printed Pretoria card with the note Durban District, Umbilo. Shrub, approximately 2.1 m tall, in old garden, red slightly clayey sand. Only one seen. A plant in an old garden may have been planted or may have come up by itself, and the note does not say which, so it does not show whether the plant was grown or spontaneous. 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 -29.866667, 30.966667 is the one the herbarium database, BODATSA, publishes for this sheet. BODATSA gives its accuracy, 1000m, which marks a field reading; the quarter-degree square 2930DD is carried beside it in the database. Umbilo, the Durban suburb the label names (OpenStreetMap node 262718111), is 2.9 km from the point. The duplicate of this gathering at the National Herbarium carries only the square's centre. Basis: holder's georeference. Uncertainty: about 1 km.
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.
The Delaware image is published under CC BY-NC 4.0, which is not a free licence, so it is not uploaded. The label is transcribed from it for this accession.
The grid reference on the label, 2930DD, is the same quarter-degree square BODATSA stores for the entry. This is the batch's clearest case of a South African label carrying its own quarter-degree code.
Source discrepancies
Durban gives the altitude as 82 m and the Delaware label as about 27 ft, which is about 8 m. The two are not reconcilable and the accession carries the catalogue's figure, with the label's recorded here.
The Delaware catalogue's silence is not evidence of a thin sheet. It is a transcription that was never done.
Source citations remain in the article. Éloise 07:23, 24 September 2026 (+07)