plant_succulence

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• Label: Plant succulence
• Entity URI: https://w3id.org/APD/traits/trait_0030022
• Type: categorical
• Definition: A whole plant [PO:0000003] phenotype [NCIT:C16977] trait that indicates whether any plant tissues [CARO:0000043] are succulent [FLOPO:0900041], indicating they are thick [PATO:0000591] and fleshy [PATO:0002351], generally storing water [CHEBI:15377] as a drought tolerance [TO:0000276] adaptation or filling with water as a salt tolerance [TO:0006001] adaptation.;Trait indicating whether the leaves or stems of a plant are thick and fleshy because they store water, generally an adaptation to arid or salty environments.
• Additional comments: Succulence generally has either a water storage function or is a mechanism to cope with (or thrive in) saline conditions. See the categorical trait `plant_tolerance_salt` for plant salt tolerance and salt avoidance strategies and the numeric trait `plant_tolerance_soil_salinity` for the soil salinity a plant can tolerate.
• Allowed values:

  value	description
  not_succulent	Neither stems nor leaves are thick and fleshy.
  semi-succulent	A plant has tissues that are somewhat thick and fleshy, including many chenopods.
  succulent	A plant is designated as succulent but it is not specified which tissues are thick and fleshy.
  succulent_leaves	Leaves are thick and fleshy.
  succulent_stems	Stems are thick and fleshy.

See the AusTraits Plant Dictionary (https://w3id.org/APD/traits/trait_0030022) for additional information about this trait.

Coverage

For this trait, AusTraits includes a total of 85 records. This includes:

• data for 82 species.
• data for 17 families.
• data from 6 datasets (see the portal Citations tab for a list of sources)