woodiness

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• Label: Woodiness
• Entity URI: https://w3id.org/APD/traits/trait_0030018
• Type: categorical
• Definition: A whole plant [PO:0000003] phenotype [NCIT:C16977] trait which indicates whether the plant stem [PO:0009047] (the vegetative shoot system [PO:0025607]) is woody, with “woody” defined to include both plant stems with secondary xylem (true wood) [PO:0005848] and those with wood-like lignification [CHEBI:6457] (woodiness in monocots and ferns).;A binary trait, indicating whether a plant's stems are woody, with woody broadly defined to include both `true wood` (secondary xylem) and taxa that do not produce secondary xylem (i.e. monocots and ferns) but have thick, stiff, robust lignified stems.
• Additional comments: This trait considers all species that have stiff lignified stems as `woody` and those that lack such stems as `herbaceous`. See the trait `plant woodiness detailed` for sub-categories of `woody` that indicate the extent and type of woodiness present in a plant stem.
• Allowed values:

  value	description
  herbaceous	Plant with non-lignified stems.
  woody	Plant whose stems are stiff and lignified, including both stems that produce secondary xylem and those that produce only lignified primary tissues but are notably stiff and robust.

See the AusTraits Plant Dictionary (https://w3id.org/APD/traits/trait_0030018) for additional information about this trait.

Coverage

For this trait, AusTraits includes a total of 4,358 records. This includes:

• data for 3,631 species.
• data for 149 families.
• data from 10 datasets (see the portal Citations tab for a list of sources)