flowering_cues
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- Label: Environmental flowering cues
- Entity URI: https://w3id.org/APD/traits/trait_0030213
- Type: categorical
- Definition: Unpredictable, irregular environmental conditions [ENVO_01000203] that are linked to a plant [PO:0000003] producing flowers [PO:0009046].;A plants' flowering response to unpredictable, irregular environmental cues.
- Additional comments: Taxa may be scored as having an environmental flowering cue, but also display a season-specific flowering response which is captured in the trait `flowering_time`. For additional details on a plant's post-fire flowering response see also the trait `post_fire_flowering`.
- Allowed values:
value description fire Plants increase flowering in response to fires. floods Plants increase flowering in response to floods. rain Plants increase flowering in response to rain, but the time of year is not specified. rain_all_year Plants increase flowering in response to rain at any time of the year. rain_autumn Plants increase flowering in response to autumn rains. rain_obligate Plants only flower following rain events. rain_spring Plants increase flowering in response to spring rains. rain_summer Plants increase flowering in response to summer rains. rain_winter Plants increase flowering in response to winter rains.
See the AusTraits Plant Dictionary (https://w3id.org/APD/traits/trait_0030213) for additional information about this trait.
Coverage
For this trait, AusTraits includes a total of 303 records. This includes:
- data for 269 species.
- data for 32 families.
- data from 2 datasets (see the portal Citations tab for a list of sources)