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

Melithaea aurantia

• 254256

  Growth form

  branched planar (cat)

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Melithaea baladea

• 281308

  Growth form

  fan-like (cat)

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Melithaea biserialis

• 231000

  Growth form

  branched planar (cat)

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• 259384

  Growth form

  branched planar (cat)

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• 206873

  Growth form

  fan-shaped (cat)

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Melithaea boninensis

• 235413

  Growth form

  branched planar (cat)

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Melithaea caledonica

• 212897

  Growth form

  branched planar (cat)

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• 281301

  Growth form

  fan-like (cat)

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Melithaea cinquemiglia

• 281316

  Growth form

  bushy (cat)

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• 281315

  Growth form

  fan-like (cat)

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Melithaea coccinea

• 231033

  Growth form

  branched planar (cat)

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Melithaea corymbosa

• 235423

  Growth form

  bushy (cat)

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• 235424

  Growth form

  branched planar (cat)

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Melithaea davidi

• 236019

  Growth form

  bushy (cat)

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Melithaea delicata

• 254868

  Growth form

  branched in all directions (cat)

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• 231007

  Growth form

  bushy (several parallel planes) (cat)

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Melithaea divaricata

• 211478

  Growth form

  branched planar (cat)

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Melithaea doederleini

• 235436

  Growth form

  branched planar (cat)

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Melithaea flabellum

• 231015

  Growth form

  branched planar (cat)

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Melithaea frondosa

• 235444

  Growth form

  bushy (cat)

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Melithaea furcata

• 231023

  Growth form

  branched planar (cat)

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Melithaea gracillima

• 250039

  Growth form

  branched planar (cat)

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Melithaea habereri

• 235451

  Growth form

  Branched in parallel planes (cat)

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Melithaea isonoi

• 235458

  Growth form

  branched planar (cat)

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Melithaea japonica

• 235465

  Growth form

  branched planar (cat)

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