perianth_colour

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• Label: Perianth colour
• Entity URI: https://w3id.org/APD/traits/trait_0012418
• Type: categorical
• Definition: A floral organ morphology trait [TO:0000862] which is the dominant (primary [NCIT:C25251]) colour [PATO:0000014] of the perianth [PO:0009058] parts (sepals [PO:0009031], petals [PO:0009032], and tepals [PO:0009033]).;The dominant colour of the perianth parts (sepals, petals and tepals).
• Additional comments: This trait refers explicitly to the colour of the petals, sepals and tepals, while the trait "flower colour" refers to the colour of the entire flower. See also data under `flower_colour`. Most data mapped to `flower_colour` has probably been scored based on perianth colour, but if a dataset does not differentiate between the two traits it is mapped to `flower_colour`.
• Allowed values:

  value	description
  black	Perianth colour is black.
  blue	Perianth colour is blue.
  brown	Perianth colour is brown.
  green	Perianth colour is green.
  grey	Perianth colour is grey.
  orange	Perianth colour is orange.
  pink	Perianth colour is pink.
  purple	Perianth colour is purple.
  red	Perianth colour is red.
  white	Perianth colour is white.
  yellow	Perianth colour is yellow.

See the AusTraits Plant Dictionary (https://w3id.org/APD/traits/trait_0012418) for additional information about this trait.

Coverage

For this trait, AusTraits includes a total of 1,299 records. This includes:

• data for 855 species.
• data for 164 families.
• data from 1 datasets (see the portal Citations tab for a list of sources)