Plant characteristics used in the CLO-PLA2 database.


Alternatives are in brackets. Note that not all characteristics are relevant for all species.

(CGO - clonal growth organ)


General characteristics:

  1. type of clonal growth organ - see Appendix 2

 

Characteristics of individual CGO:

  1. response to injury (y/n)
  2. seasonality of formation of CGO (y/n)
  3. CGO is formed rarely/commonly
  4. number of shoots in a clonal fragment (1, 2 - 5, more)
  5. number of shoots per shoot produced per year (1, 2 - 5, more)
  6. branching (monopodial, sympodial, dichotomic)
  7. lateral spread per year (less than 0.05 m, 0.05 - 0.25 m, more, transportable particles)
  8. length of internodes (less than 2 mm, more)
  9. location of leaves on generative shoots (without rosette, semi-rosette, rosette)
  10. life-span of shoots (years to flowering: 1, 2, more)
  11. spacer longevity (1 season, 1 year, 2 to 10 years, more)
  12. number of generations of shoots per year (1, more)
  13. tillering of grasses (intravaginal, extravaginal)
  14. ontogenetic development of mother plant during formation of CGO (pre-reproductive, reproductive, post-reproductive)
  15. ontogenetic development of mother and daughter plants is the same (y/n)
  16. generations of shoots are overlapping (y/n)
  17. location of adventitious roots on spacer of stem origin (along whole spacer, on youngest part, on oldest part, on bases of shoots, without adventitious roots)

 

Characteristics of the whole plant

  1. main root is perennial (y/n)
  2. depth of root system (less than 10 cm, more, non-rooting in soil)
  3. generative reproduction (rare, common, abundant)
  4. storage organ other than CGO (y/n)
  5. secondary thickening (y/n)
  6. branching (monopodial, sympodial, dichotomic)
  7. source of data / references

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