flower_colour

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• Label: Flower colour
• Entity URI: https://w3id.org/APD/traits/trait_0012417
• Type: categorical
• Definition: A floral organ morphology trait [TO:0000862] which is the dominant (primary [NCIT:C25251]) colour [PATO:0000014] of the flower [PO:0009046. The petals [PO:0009032] (corolla [PO:0009059]), sepals [PO:0009031] (calyx [PO:0009060]), or the entire perianth [PO:0009058] may be responsible for the main colour observed.;The dominant flower colour, where the entire flower, the petals, or the sepals may be responsible for the observed colour.
• Additional comments: Most data mapped to `flower_colour` has probably been scored based on perianth colour, but if a dataset does not differentiate between the two traits it is mapped to `flower_colour`.
• Allowed values:

  value	description
  black	Flower colour is black.
  blue_purple	Flower colour is blue or purple.
  green	Flower colour is green.
  grey	Flower colour is grey.
  pink	Flower colour is pink.
  red_brown	Flower colour is red or brown.
  white_cream	Flower colour is white or cream.
  yellow_orange	Flower colour is yellow or orange.

See the AusTraits Plant Dictionary (https://w3id.org/APD/traits/trait_0012417) for additional information about this trait.

Coverage

For this trait, AusTraits includes a total of 7,549 records. This includes:

• data for 6,320 species.
• data for 219 families.
• data from 4 datasets (see the portal Citations tab for a list of sources)