seedling_germination_location

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• Label: Seedling germination location
• Entity URI: https://w3id.org/APD/traits/trait_0010162
• Type: categorical
• Definition: A plant embryo cotyledon morphology trait [TO:0000775] which is the position [PATO:0000140] of seed germination [GO:0009845] relative to the soil surface.;Binary variable distinguishing between seedlings that germinate above versus below ground.
• Additional comments: None
• Allowed values:

  value	description
  epigeal	Germinant with one or more cotyledons emerging aboveground.
  hypogeal	Germinant with all cotyledons remaining belowground.

See the AusTraits Plant Dictionary (https://w3id.org/APD/traits/trait_0010162) for additional information about this trait.

Coverage

For this trait, AusTraits includes a total of 199 records. This includes:

• data for 199 species.
• data for 61 families.
• data from 1 datasets (see the portal Citations tab for a list of sources)