Alternatives are in brackets. Note that not
all characteristics are relevant for all species.
(CGO - clonal growth organ)
General characteristics:
- type of clonal growth organ - see Appendix 2
Characteristics of individual CGO:
- response to injury (y/n)
- seasonality of formation of CGO (y/n)
- CGO is formed rarely/commonly
- number of shoots in a clonal fragment (1, 2 - 5, more)
- number of shoots per shoot produced per year (1, 2 - 5, more)
- branching (monopodial, sympodial, dichotomic)
- lateral spread per year (less than 0.05 m, 0.05 - 0.25 m, more,
transportable particles)
- length of internodes (less than 2 mm, more)
- location of leaves on generative shoots (without rosette,
semi-rosette, rosette)
- life-span of shoots (years to flowering: 1, 2, more)
- spacer longevity (1 season, 1 year, 2 to 10 years, more)
- number of generations of shoots per year (1, more)
- tillering of grasses (intravaginal, extravaginal)
- ontogenetic development of mother plant during formation of CGO
(pre-reproductive, reproductive, post-reproductive)
- ontogenetic development of mother and daughter plants is the same
(y/n)
- generations of shoots are overlapping (y/n)
- 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
- main root is perennial (y/n)
- depth of root system (less than 10 cm, more, non-rooting in soil)
- generative reproduction (rare, common, abundant)
- storage organ other than CGO (y/n)
- secondary thickening (y/n)
- branching (monopodial, sympodial, dichotomic)
- source of data / references