flower_structural_sex_type

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• Label: Floral structural sex
• Entity URI: https://w3id.org/APD/traits/trait_0012482
• Type: categorical
• Definition: A floral organ morphology trait [TO:0000862] which is the phenotypic sex [PATO:0001894] of a flower [PO:0009046], indicating whether individual flowers have both male [PATO:0000384] and female [PATO:0000383] reproductive structures [UBERON:0005156] (bisexual) or only one type of reproductive organ (unisexual).;Trait that captures floral sex, distinguishing among three states, bisexual, incompletely unisexual, and unisexual.
• Additional comments: Defined by Schoenenberger et al. (2020) for their character '100. Floral structural sex (D1)'. See the trait 'sex_type' for plant sex type.
• Allowed values:

  value	description
  bisexual	Hermaphrodite; flowers with both male and female reproductive organs.
  incompletely_unisexual	Male flowers with pistillodes and/or female flowers with staminodes.
  unisexual	Flowers with either male or female reproductive organs.

See the AusTraits Plant Dictionary (https://w3id.org/APD/traits/trait_0012482) for additional information about this trait.

Coverage

For this trait, AusTraits includes a total of 1,982 records. This includes:

• data for 1,675 species.
• data for 230 families.
• data from 2 datasets (see the portal Citations tab for a list of sources)