flower_orientation

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• Label: Floral orientation
• Entity URI: https://w3id.org/APD/traits/trait_0012421
• Type: categorical
• Definition: A floral organ morphology trait [TO:0000862] which is the position [PATO:0000140] and orientation [PATO:0000133] of the flower [PO:0009046].;The position and orientation of the flower.
• Additional comments: None
• Allowed values:

  value	description
  down	Flower orientation is pendant, with the floral entrance pointing down.
  lateral	Flower orientation is horizontal, with the floral entrance perpendicular to main vertical axis.
  mixed	Flower orientation is mixed, with different flowers exhibiting different orientations.
  up	Flower orientation is vertical, with the floral entrance pointing up.

See the AusTraits Plant Dictionary (https://w3id.org/APD/traits/trait_0012421) for additional information about this trait.

Coverage

For this trait, AusTraits includes a total of 65 records. This includes:

• data for 65 species.
• data for 20 families.
• data from 1 datasets (see the portal Citations tab for a list of sources)