root_vascular_anatomy

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• Label: Root vascular anatomy
• Entity URI: https://w3id.org/APD/traits/trait_0012123
• Type: categorical
• Definition: A root system morphology trait [TO:0000985] which is the arrangement [NCIT:C61532] or type [NCIT:C25284] of the root [PO:0020127] vascular system [PO:0003011].;The arrangement or type of the root vascular system.
• Additional comments: None
• Allowed values:

  value	description
  cord_roots	A root anatomy found within three genera of Mirbelieae (Daviesia, Euchilopsis, Phyllota) wherein networks of interlinking vascular strands exist (Crisp 2003; Pate and Dixon 1996).
  unistelar_roots	The commonly observed root anatomy, wherein there is a single vascular strand which displays secondary thickening.

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Coverage

For this trait, AusTraits includes a total of 79 records. This includes:

• data for 78 species.
• data for 1 families.
• data from 2 datasets (see the portal Citations tab for a list of sources)