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

Rhodaniridogorgia superba

• 253644

  Growth form

  axis monopodial, spiraling upward, with undivided branches emanating from one side of axis (cat)

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Rhodelinda gardineri

• 257302

  Growth form

  ribbon-like stolons (cat)

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Rhodolitica occulta

• 237311

  Growth form

  encrusting (stoloniferous) (cat)

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Rhytisma fulvum

• 206539

  Growth form

  encrusting (membranous) (cat)

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• 221903

  Growth form

  encrusting (cat)

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Rhytisma fuscum

• 221904

  Growth form

  encrusting (cat)

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Rhytisma monticulum

• 221905

  Growth form

  encrusting (cat)

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Rhytisma rubiginosum

• 221906

  Growth form

  encrusting (cat)

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Riisea paniculata

• 243656

  Growth form

  branched planar (cat)

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• 239133

  Growth form

  branched planar (cat)

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Rolandia coralloides

• 246173

  Growth form

  ribbon-like stolons (cat)

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• 259544

  Growth form

  polyps connected by stolons (cat)

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Rosgorgia inexspectata

• 247004

  Growth form

  unbranched erect (cat)

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• 267152

  Growth form

  sparsely branched (cat)

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• 247005

  Growth form

  sparsely branched (cat)

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Rumphella aggregata

• 281386

  Growth form

  bushy (cat)

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• 229411

  Growth form

  bushy (cat)

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Rumphella antipathes

• 254281

  Growth form

  bushy (cat)

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• 229412

  Growth form

  bushy (cat)

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Rumphella suffruticosa

• 229413

  Growth form

  bushy (cat)

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Rumphella torta

• 229414

  Growth form

  bushy (cat)

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Sansibia claereboudti

• 253414

  Growth form

  encrusting (membranous) (cat)

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Sansibia flava

• 245840

  Growth form

  encrusting (cat)

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• 253402

  Growth form

  encrusting (membranous) (cat)

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Sarcodictyon catenatum

• 265286

  Growth form

  encrusting (ribbon-like stolons) (cat)

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