flower_gynoecium_phyllotaxis

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• Label: Gynoecium phyllotaxis
• Entity URI: https://w3id.org/APD/traits/trait_0012441
• Type: categorical
• Definition: A gynoecium [PO:0009062] morphology trait which is either the count [NCIT:C25463] of whorls [PO:0025023] of carpels [PO:0009030] comprising the gynoecium or other descriptors of carpel phyllotaxy [TO:0006014].;Structural phyllotaxy of the gynoecium.
• Additional comments: This trait is not applicable to unicarpellate flowers. Definition and trait values derived from Schoenenberger et al. (2020) for their character '400. Gynoecium phyllotaxy (D1)'
• Allowed values:

  value	description
  one_whorl	Flowers with a single whorl of carpels.
  spiral	Flowers with carpels in a spiral arrangement.
  two_or_more_whorls	Flowers with two or more whorls of carpels.

See the AusTraits Plant Dictionary (https://w3id.org/APD/traits/trait_0012441) for additional information about this trait.

Coverage

For this trait, AusTraits includes a total of 282 records. This includes:

• data for 248 species.
• data for 116 families.
• data from 2 datasets (see the portal Citations tab for a list of sources)