seed_dry_mass

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• Label: Seed dry mass
• Entity URI: https://w3id.org/APD/traits/trait_0012610
• Type: numeric
• Definition: A seed morphology trait [TO:0000184] which is the dry [PATO:0001824] mass [PATO:0000125] of a mature [PATO:0001701] seed [PO:0009010].;Dry mass of a mature seed, including both oven dried and air-dried samples.
• Additional comments: Standard methods people will have used to dry seeds include, 'fresh' (at dispersal, mature); 'air dried' (at local ambient conditions); 'seed bank air dried' (to 15% relative humidity); and 'oven dried' (>100 deg C for a set number of hours; e.g. seed bank standard is 103 deg C for 17 hours). It is expected that some observations in AusTraits mapped onto 'seed_dry_mass' will actually include both the seed and some dispersal tissue, if the two cannot easily be separated; these should be mapped to 'diaspore_dry_mass'.
• units: mg
• allowable range: 1e-05 - 1000000 mg

See the AusTraits Plant Dictionary (https://w3id.org/APD/traits/trait_0012610) for additional information about this trait.

Coverage

For this trait, AusTraits includes a total of 40,423 records. This includes:

• data for 9,971 species.
• data for 227 families.
• data from 58 datasets (see the portal Citations tab for a list of sources)