Planteome: Term Details for "scale leaf" (PO:0006003)

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Term Information

Accession: PO:0006003
Name: scale leaf
Ontology: plant_anatomy
Synonyms: catáfila en escama (Spanish, exact), 鱗片葉 (Japanese, exact), cataphyll (related)
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: A phyllome that is reduced in size relative to a vascular leaf on the same plant and is often associated with a perennating or dormant bud or a vegetatively propagating organ such as a rhizome. Source: ISBN:0080374913
Comment: May be photosynthetic or non-photosynthetic. Some species have vascular leaves that are scale-like (such as Juniperus, Thuja, and Chamaecyparis). Annotations for scale-like leaves should go under vascular leaf (PO:0009025), not scale leaf.
Subset: reference; TraitNet
Related: Link to all annotated objects annotated to scale leaf.; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to scale leaf.; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for scale leaf.
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PO:0025131 plant anatomical entity
PO:0009011 plant structure
PO:0025497 collective plant structure
BFO:0000002 continuant
BFO:0000001 entity
PO:0025007 collective plant organ structure
BFO:0000004 independent continuant
PO:0025496 multi-tissue plant structure
PO:0009008 plant organ
PO:0009006 shoot system
PO:0006001 phyllome
PO:0006003 scale leaf
PO:0020054 bud scale leaf
PO:0025278 rhizome scale leaf
PO:0025014 scale leaf margin

Parents of scale leaf (PO:0006003)

subject	relation	object
scale leaf	is_a	phyllome (PO:0006001)

Children of scale leaf (PO:0006003)

subject	relation	object
scale leaf margin (PO:0025014)	BFO:0000050	scale leaf
bud scale leaf (PO:0020054)	is_a	scale leaf
rhizome scale leaf (PO:0025278)	is_a	scale leaf

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