diaspore_fleshiness

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• Label: Diaspore fleshiness
• Entity URI: https://w3id.org/APD/traits/trait_0012622
• Type: categorical
• Definition: A seed morphology trait [TO:0002629] which indicates whether a mature [PATO:0001701] fresh [EnvThes:21976] diaspore is fleshy [PATO:0002351], where a diaspore is a plant's dispersal [EnvThes:21038] unit and includes both the seed [PO:0009010] and the seed dispersal [EnvThes:21042] structures [PATO:0000141].;Binary variable, dividing diaspores (dispersal units) into 'dry' versus 'fleshy' based on whether they have fleshy pericarps, fleshy accessory tissues (such as the receptacle in Podocarpus), or fleshy appendages (e.g. aril, thalamus, receptacle, calyx, rachis or bract or succulent pedicel) when mature. Dispersal units where none of these tissues is fleshy are designated as 'non-fleshy'.
• Additional comments: None
• Allowed values:

  value	description
  dry	Diaspores where the true fruit, accessory tissues and dispersal appendages are all dry when mature.
  fleshy	Diaspores where either the true fruit, accessory tissues or dispersal appendages are fleshy when mature.

See the AusTraits Plant Dictionary (https://w3id.org/APD/traits/trait_0012622) for additional information about this trait.

Coverage

For this trait, AusTraits includes a total of 4,126 records. This includes:

• data for 4,109 species.
• data for 82 families.
• data from 1 datasets (see the portal Citations tab for a list of sources)