Planteome: Term Details for "pappus" (PO:0025393)

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Term Information

Accession: PO:0025393
Name: pappus
Ontology: plant_anatomy
Synonyms: pappi (exact, plural), 冠毛 (Japanese, exact)
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: A collective organ part structure that has a parts one or more pappus elements (scales, awns, or bristles) at the apex of an inferior ovary just beneath or outside the corolla. Source: FNA:glossary, ISBN:0964022168
Comment: Found in flowers and fruits (cypsela) of the Asteraceae. May aid in dispersal by wind or animals. Considered by some to be an evolutionarily modified upper calyx portion, the lower portion having been incorporated into the floral tube casing adnate to the ovary wall; considered by others to be an outgrowth from the ovary wall.
Subset: None
Related: Link to all annotated objects annotated to pappus.; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to pappus.; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for pappus.
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BFO:0000002 continuant
BFO:0000001 entity
BFO:0000004 independent continuant
BFO:0000040 material entity
PO:0025131 plant anatomical entity
PO:0009011 plant structure
PO:0025497 collective plant structure
PO:0025269 collective organ part structure
PO:0025393 pappus
PO:0025394 pappus element

Parents of pappus (PO:0025393)

subject	relation	object
pappus	is_a	collective organ part structure (PO:0025269)

Children of pappus (PO:0025393)

subject	relation	object
pappus element (PO:0025394)	BFO:0000050	pappus

PlantSystematics_image_archive: 14891; 8662
PO_GIT: 406