leaf_hairs_immature_leaves

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• Label: Immature leaf hairiness
• Entity URI: https://w3id.org/APD/traits/trait_0011363
• Type: categorical
• Definition: A leaf pubescence trait [TO:0002722] which is the presence or absence of trichomes [PO:0006504] (hairs) on the leaf lamina [PO:0020039] of an adult phase leaf [PO:0006340] still in the vascular leaf expansion stage [PO:0001052].;Variable describing whether immature (still expanding) adult phase leaves on adult plants have hairs (trichomes).
• Additional comments: This trait captures the presence or absence of hairs on immature (still expanding) leaves on adult plants. The accompanying methods should specify if the trait was scored on the upper (adaxial) or lower (abaxial) surface of the leaf; in the absence of any notes, it is assumed the trait was scored on the upper (adaxial) leaf surface.
• Allowed values:

  value	description
  glabrous	Immature (still expanding) leaves do not have hairs (trichomes).
  hairy	Immature (still expanding) leaves have hairs (trichomes).

See the AusTraits Plant Dictionary (https://w3id.org/APD/traits/trait_0011363) for additional information about this trait.

Coverage

For this trait, AusTraits includes a total of 73 records. This includes:

• data for 72 species.
• data for 31 families.
• data from 1 datasets (see the portal Citations tab for a list of sources)