vegetative_reproduction_ability

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• Label: Vegetative reproduction ability
• Entity URI: https://w3id.org/APD/traits/trait_0030510
• Type: categorical
• Definition: A whole plant [PO:0000003] life history [ECOCORE:00000018] trait which is the ability [NCIT:C78209] of individual [EFO:0000542] plants to reproduce [GO:0000003] through asexual reproduction [GO:0019954] (vegetative reproduction).;A binary trait, indicating whether a plant taxon is able to reproduce and spread through the growth and division of vegetative material.
• Additional comments: For plants able to reproduce vegetatively, more detailed information about the mechanisms and structures that allow clonal spread is provided in the trait `clonal_spread_mechanism`. The trait `dispersal_unit` captures information on plants that never produce by seed.
• Allowed values:

  value	description
  not_vegetative	Plant taxa that regenerate and spread only by seed.
  vegetative	Plant taxa that can regenerate and spread through the growth and division of vegetative material, not just from seed; examples include runners, rhizomes, and bulbs.
  vegetative_obligate	Plant taxa that never (or very rarely) regenerate from seed, instead regenerating and spreading entirely through the growth and division of vegetative material.

See the AusTraits Plant Dictionary (https://w3id.org/APD/traits/trait_0030510) for additional information about this trait.

Coverage

For this trait, AusTraits includes a total of 10,485 records. This includes:

• data for 7,825 species.
• data for 179 families.
• data from 10 datasets (see the portal Citations tab for a list of sources)