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

Lobophytum patulum

• 253570

  Growth form

  flat plate like (cat)

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Lobophytum pauciflorum

• 248994

  Growth form

  encrusting (cat)

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• 253556

  Growth form

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

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Lobophytum ransoni

• 253557

  Growth form

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

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Lobophytum rotundum

• 231101

  Growth form

  digitate (cat)

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Lobophytum sarcophytoides

• 253571

  Growth form

  disc not much wider than the stalk and with folded edges that may fuse to form lobes or ridges (cat)

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Lobophytum schoedei

• 253572

  Growth form

  disc not much wider than the stalk and with folded edges that may fuse to form lobes or ridges (cat)

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Lobophytum strictum

• 253558

  Growth form

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

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Lobophytum variatum

• 253569

  Growth form

  flat plate like (cat)

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• 234015

  Growth form

  encrusting (lobate) (cat)

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Lobophytum venustum

• 231111

  Growth form

  cup-like (cat)

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Loboprimnoa exotica

• 250431

  Growth form

  branched planar (cat)

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Lytreia plana

• 238414

  Growth form

  branched planar (cat)

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Maasella edwardsii

• 259495

  Growth form

  polyps connected by stolons (cat)

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• 212786

  Growth form

  stoloniferous (cat)

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Macroprimnoa ornata

• 254972

  Growth form

  unbranched (cat)

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Malacacanthus capensis

• 266188

  Growth form

  cylindrical stalk into which a globular polyparium can be fully retracted (cat)

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• 244603

  Growth form

  capitate (mushroom/domed polyparium) (cat)

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• 250666

  Growth form

  capitate (mushroom-like) (cat)

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Malacobelemnon daytoni

• 248028

  Growth form

  unbranched erect (pen-like) (cat)

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• 251979

  Growth form

  cylindrical to clavate (cat)

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Malacobelemnon stephensoni

• 251980

  Growth form

  cylindrical to clavate (cat)

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Melithaea akalyx

• 281360

  Growth form

  fan-like (cat)

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Melithaea andamanensis

• 230987

  Growth form

  bushy (several parallel planes) (cat)

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Melithaea arborea

• 235405

  Growth form

  bushy (cat)

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