Growth form

ID: 206

Class: Morphological

Description:

The growth form of a coral colony measured in the field or during an experiment. The range of growth form categories is not constrained (i.e., growth forms should be named as they were in the original resource or dataset), and therefore the number of categories will become large.

Standards:

• Category (cat) default

Methodologies:

• Derived from photographs of live colonies
• Derived from photographs of specimens
• Derived from textual description
• Examination of collected specimens
• Extracted from data table
• Extracted from tabular key
• Identification key
• Image analysis
• inferred
• observation_field
• Species-specific value inherited from family level
• Species-specific value inherited from genus level
• Textual description in identification guide
• Trait value coded using a compilation of data from previous works
• Trait value derived from DORIS online identification guide, based on expert opinions
• Trait value derived from Fabricius and Alderslade (2001)
• Trait value derived from Picton, B.E. & Morrow, C.C. (2016) online identification guide

Editor: Joshua Madin (contact)

Observations

Lituaria kuekenthali

• 251555

  Growth form

  unbranched erect (cylindrical to clavate) (cat)

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Lituaria molle

• 251556

  Growth form

  unbranched erect (cylindrical to clavate) (cat)

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Lituaria phalloides

• 251557

  Growth form

  unbranched erect (cylindrical to clavate) (cat)

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Lituaria philippinensis

• 251558

  Growth form

  unbranched erect (cylindrical to clavate) (cat)

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Lituaria valenciennesi

• 251559

  Growth form

  unbranched erect (cylindrical to clavate) (cat)

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Lobophytum borbonicum

• 253550

  Growth form

  disc surface with prominent lobes/ridges/fingers (cat)

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Lobophytum catalai

• 253547

  Growth form

  disc surface with prominent lobes/ridges/fingers (cat)

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Lobophytum compactum

• 253548

  Growth form

  disc surface with prominent lobes/ridges/fingers (cat)

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Lobophytum crassum

• 231093

  Growth form

  digitate (cat)

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• 253549

  Growth form

  disc surface with prominent lobes/ridges/fingers (cat)

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• 249003

  Growth form

  encrusting lobate (cat)

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Lobophytum cryptocormum

• 253551

  Growth form

  disc surface with prominent lobes/ridges/fingers (cat)

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Lobophytum densum

• 253552

  Growth form

  disc surface with prominent lobes/ridges/fingers (cat)

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Lobophytum depressum

• 259625

  Growth form

  dish-shaped (cat)

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Lobophytum hirsutum

• 253553

  Growth form

  disc surface with prominent lobes (cat)

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Lobophytum hsiehi

• 234012

  Growth form

  encrusting (lobate) (cat)

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Lobophytum jasparsi

• 231338

  Growth form

  lobate (cat)

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Lobophytum latilobatum

• 259636

  Growth form

  with finger-like lobes (cat)

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Lobophytum legitimum

• 253554

  Growth form

  disc surface with prominent lobes/ridges/fingers (cat)

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Lobophytum microspiculatum

• 254395

  Growth form

  disc-shaped lobate (cat)

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Lobophytum mirabile

• 253555

  Growth form

  disc surface with prominent lobes/ridges/fingers (cat)

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Lobophytum mortoni

• 232740

  Growth form

  capitate (cup like) (cat)

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• 232747

  Growth form

  encrusting (lobate) (cat)

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Lobophytum patulum

• 232748

  Growth form

  encrusting (disc-shaped) (cat)

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• 234014

  Growth form

  encrusting (lobate) (cat)

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