bud_bank_location
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- Label: Bud bank location
- Entity URI: https://w3id.org/APD/traits/trait_0030513
- Type: categorical
- Definition: The position [PATO:0000140] and distribution [PATO:0000060] of vegetative meristematic tissue [PO:0006079] (buds [PO:0000055]) on a plant [PO:0000003]. These may be buds that allow a plant to regrow following an unfavourable season or buds that survive [EnvThes:21064] a disturbance event [EnvThes:20373] such as a fire, cyclone or drought. In particular, they may be meristematic tissue that survives a fire [ENVO:01000786] and allows the plant to resprout [Cerrado:fire#PlantResprout] following the fire.;The location of buds (meristematic tissue) on a plant that allows it to resprout following a fire, annual unfavourable season, or other disturbance event, such as a drought or cyclone. Trait values include both generic terms and quite specific ones to accommodate the variation in detail provided across datasets.
- Additional comments: There are two other traits with overlapping trait values, but that are distinct trait concepts: `clonal_spread_mechanism` indicates mechanisms and structures a plant actually uses for vegetative spread; not all energy storage organs also allow vegetative spread; `storage_organ` indicates the plant structures where a plant stores excess carbohydrates. See Pausus, Lamont et al. 2018 (doi.org/10.1111/nph.14982) for detailed descriptions of recolonization ability and level of fire protection provided by each regeneration strategy. If specific bud banks only survive some types of disturbance, the disturbance should be specified as a context property.
- Allowed values:
value description apical_buds Plants resprout from above-ground apical meristems. Also termed a caudex. Term refers to palm-like plants with aerial buds that resprout, including grass trees, palms, tree ferns, and pandanus. (Synonyms, aerial apical sprouter) basal_buds Plants resprout from its base, with buds originating from stem tissue (e.g. lignotuber) and root tissue (root crown) not distinguished between. Most buds designated as being basal are likely to be resprouts from a lignotuber, but this trait value is used if the dataset reported `basal buds` rather than `basal stem buds` or `lignotuber`. basal_stem_buds Plants resprout from the base of the stem. Australian plants with basal stem buds usually have a lignotuber, documented in the trait `storage_organ`. (Synonyms, rootstock, lignotuberous resprouter) bud-bearing_root Root buds produce vertical suckers (from root crown) or adventitious roots. (Synonyms, root-suckering resprouter, adventitious buds) epicormic_buds Plants resprout from the stem or trunk. fleshy_underground_organ Plants resprouts from buds on a fleshy underground organ that is a taproot tuber, bulb, corm, stem tuber, root tuber, or belowground caudex. (Synonyms, geophyte) none Plants lack regenerative buds. rhizome Plants resprout from buds on a rhizome, where it is not specified if the rhizome is woody or non-woody. rhizome_non_woody Plants resprout from buds on a fleshy rhizome, rhizophore, or fibrous rhizome. rhizome_woody Plants resprout from buds on a woody rhizome. root_crown Plants resprout from the root crown, the root tissue at the root-stem transition. stem_buds Plants resprout from stem buds; this trait value is separate to epicormic buds. (Synonyms, aerial axillary resprouter) stem_tuber Plants resprout from buds on a stem tuber. stolon Horizontal branches (stems) resprout from the base of the plant. underground_buds Plants that resprout from underground organ, but the type of organ isn't specified.
See the AusTraits Plant Dictionary (https://w3id.org/APD/traits/trait_0030513) for additional information about this trait.
Coverage
For this trait, AusTraits includes a total of 13,234 records. This includes:
- data for 7,113 species.
- data for 205 families.
- data from 29 datasets (see the portal Citations tab for a list of sources)