flower_structural_carpels_count

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• Label: Number of structural carpels
• Entity URI: https://w3id.org/APD/traits/trait_0012481
• Type: numeric
• Definition: A floral organ morphology trait [TO:0000862] which is the count [NCIT:C25463] of both fertile [PATO:0000955] and female sterile [PATO:0000892] carpels [PO:0009030] in a hermaphrodite [PATO:0001340] flower [PO:0009046] or female [PATO:0000383] flower.;Number of fertile or sterile carpels in bisexual or female flowers, recorded as a continuous character (with integer values of 1 and above).
• Additional comments: Includes the number of co-occurring carpellodes (sterile carpels) because this number is often more easily obtained from the literature than the actual number of fertile carpels. However, the number of carpellodes in male flowers is ignored for this character. In multicarpellate, unilocular gynoecia with complete carpel fusion up to the stigma (e.g., Primula), it may be difficult to assess the number of carpels unequivocally. In such cases, the number of carpels is scored only if it is well established based on atomical or developmental investigations. Similarly, in gynoecia where one or more carpels are reduced (e.g., in the pseudomonomerous gynoecia of some Arecaceae, Stauffer et al., 2002), the total number of structural carpels is only scored when unequivocally determined in the literature. Definition derived from Schoenenberger et al. (2020) for their character '401. Number of structural carpels (C1)'
• units: {count}
• allowable range: 0 - 10000 {count}

See the AusTraits Plant Dictionary (https://w3id.org/APD/traits/trait_0012481) for additional information about this trait.

Coverage

For this trait, AusTraits includes a total of 1,411 records. This includes:

• data for 1,003 species.
• data for 209 families.
• data from 2 datasets (see the portal Citations tab for a list of sources)