sex_type
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- Label: Plant sex type
- Entity URI: https://w3id.org/APD/traits/trait_0030060
- Type: categorical
- Definition: A plant structure morphology trait [TO:0000839] which is the distribution [PATO:0000060] of male [PATO:0000384], female [PATO:0000383], and hermaphroditic [PATO:0001340] flowers [PO:0009046] on one individual [EFO:0000542] and across multiple individuals in a population [PCO:0000001].;Plant sex type, indicating, for a taxon the type of flowers (male, female, and hermaphroditic) present on individual plants versus separate plants within a population.
- Additional comments: None
- Allowed values:
value description androdioecious Taxa in which hermaphroditic and staminate (male) plants coexist within a population. andromonoecious Taxa with hermaphrodite flowers and staminate flowers (producing just male gametes) on the same plant but no pistillate (female) flowers. dioecious Taxa that produce male and female flowers on separate plants. gynodioecious Taxa in which hermaphroditic and pistillate (female) plants coexist within a population. gynomonoecious Taxa with hermaphrodite flowers and pistillate flowers (producing just female gametes) on the same plant but no staminate (male) flowers. hermaphrodite Taxa with flowers that produce both male and female gametes; bisexual. monoecious Taxa that have both male and female flowers on the same plant but an individual flower produces only male or female gametes. polygamodioecious Taxa where some flowers on a plant are hermaphrodite and other are pistillate (female) or staminate (male). polygamonoecious Taxa where some plants in a population have hermaphrodite and pistillate (female) flowers and others have hermaphrodite and staminate (male) flowers. polygamous Taxa with both unisexual and bisexual flowers on the same plant. trioecious Taxa where plants in a population have either hermaphroditic (bisexual) flowers, pistillate (female) flowers, or staminate (male) flowers. unknown Inadequate information to assign a sex type.
See the AusTraits Plant Dictionary (https://w3id.org/APD/traits/trait_0030060) for additional information about this trait.
Coverage
For this trait, AusTraits includes a total of 27,014 records. This includes:
- data for 21,687 species.
- data for 240 families.
- data from 15 datasets (see the portal Citations tab for a list of sources)