plant_height

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• Label: Plant vegetative height
• Entity URI: https://w3id.org/APD/traits/trait_0010023
• Type: numeric
• Definition: A whole plant morphology trait [TO:0000398] which is the maximum [NCIT:C25564] vertical [PATO:0001854] height [PATO:0000119] of the vegetative shoot system [PO:0025607] for a taxon [NCIT:C40098] in a given population [PCO:0000001] or location [NCIT:C25341].;Maximum vertical height of the vegetative shoot system for a taxon in a given location.
• Additional comments: This trait is not meant to document the height of all individuals sampled, but instead the maximum height for a typical mature individual within a population or across a taxon. The trait should only be scored for self-supporting plants, not climbers whose height is dependent on the surrounding vegetation. The documented height should be the maximum height achieved by vegetative shoots, not the height reached by reproductive shoots, as it represents the plant's access to light.
• units: m
• allowable range: 0.001 - 130 m

See the AusTraits Plant Dictionary (https://w3id.org/APD/traits/trait_0010023) for additional information about this trait.

Coverage

For this trait, AusTraits includes a total of 69,716 records. This includes:

• data for 22,855 species.
• data for 280 families.
• data from 83 datasets (see the portal Citations tab for a list of sources)