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Spot id
Spot character
No. of records
13
Epiphytic
159
14
Lithophytic
202
22
Terrestrial (used in the Pteridophyta and Orchidaceae only)
430
400
Stellate or dendritic hairs
126
6
Aquatic
75
2
Trees
1001
20
Shrub over 2 m
513
721
Leaves bearing spines or prickles
14
740
Leaves alternate
525
743
Leaves clustered at branch ends or on short shoots
14
804
Inflorescence a cone
12
21
Shrub under 2 m
197
741
Leaves simple
531
700
Leaves reduced to scales or 0
74
701
Leaves whorled
38
1100
Seeds winged
52
739
Leaves opposite
107
19
Perennials
227
200
White sap
209
742
Leaves basal
5
803
Inflorescence an umbel or pseudumbel
9
16
Annuals
84
719
Leaves with translucent gland dots (visible when held up to light)
33
738
Leaf base sagittate
4
1000
Fruits winged
127
1200
Forest grasses
11
1201
Grasses with broad leaves
9
729
Leaves plicate
9
109
Prickles or spines on trunk or stems
196
301
Lemon-scented
8
712
Leaves digitately compound with more than 3 leaflets
48
717
Leaves 2(-3 or more) pinnate
111
1
Climbing
226
9
Bearing tendrils
152
0
Succulent
219
18
Lianes
93
708
Leaves 3-foliolate
80
911
Ovary inferior or semi-inferior
310
401
Medifixed hairs
12
4
Myco-heterotrophic ("saprophytic")
8
5
Without chlorophyll
14
730
Leaves turning black on drying
19
753
Leaf with (a few) special glands on the lamina
22
24
Plant dioecious
22
755
Leaves bearing numerous (non-translucent) glands
3
734
Leaves (or leaflets in compound leaves) 3(-5)-veined from the base
23
505
Stipules present
124
111
Trunk or branches bearing flowers (cauliflory)
15
723
Leaves with markedly rough surfaces
3
300
Foetid
39
713
Leaves palmately lobed
46
916
Ovary superior
92
404
Stinging (urticating) hairs
14
3
Parasitic
141
104
Stem square
50
506
Stipules absent
52
746
Leaves with entire margin
319
901
Calyx accrescent
37
600
Petiole channelled above
4
1002
Fruit with hooks or hooked bristles
14
23
Cushion plants
3
1101
Seeds with an aril or aril-like structure
60
1016
Fruit circumscissile, opening with a lid
14
902
Calyx with an epicalyx
55
706
Leaves peltate
19
601
Petiole (markedly) swollen at apex
2
801
Inflorescence supra-axillary
4
900
Dicotyledons with parts in threes
19
10
Bearing distinctly bent hooks
2
702
Leaves both alternate and whorled or opposite on same plant
3
1010
Fruit like acorns
3
201
Yellow sap
4
715
Leaves pinnatifid
11
744
Leaves amplexicaul
2
1001
Fruit prickly or spiny
22
745
Leaves 2 (-3 or more) pinnatifid
2
800
Inflorescence leaf-opposed
7
906
Corolla / petals with a spur
10
718
Leaves simple (or 1-foliolate) in predominantly compound families or genera
35
1011
Fruit markedly ribbed
3
101
Trunk with large knob-like projections (which may bear thorns)
13
707
Leaves both simple and compound on the same plant
13
750
Leaves (or leaflets in compound leaves) with toothed margin
127
1004
Ripe fruit red
15
709
Leaves imparipinnate with more than 3 leaflets
63
917
Calyx with hooked hairs or bristles
1
726
Leaves ericoid
30
605
Petiole and/or rhachis bearing glands
11
100
Trunk with bark peeling off in papery pieces
3
725
Leaves sensitive
9
710
Leaves paripinnate with 2 leaflets only
10
711
Leaves paripinnate with more than 2 leaflets
73
500
Stipules intrapetiolar
2
604
Petiole and/or rhachis winged
28
1103
Seeds "red and black"
10
502
Stipules pinnate
2
720
Leaves with translucent streaks or lines (visible when held up to light)
5
102
Trunk or branches with corky bark
3
909
Flowers appearing before the leaves
9
1020
Fruit a berry
3
908
Corolla resupinate
1
724
Leaves (or leaflets) consistently emarginate (i.e. excluding plants with rarely emarginate leaves)
4
705
Leaves anisophyllous
1
110
Forked prickles or spines on trunk, stems
1
1019
Fruit a capsule
76
1021
Fruit covered in warts
2
722
Leaves with domatia
72
910
Staminal tube present
75
731
Young leaves flushing red/ reddish-brown
1
1005
Ripe fruit white
3
1013
Fruit inflated
11
1018
Fruit lobed
14
408
Bearing scales
10
25
Plant monoecious
12
704
Leaves opposite in families with generally alternate leaves
2
751
Leaves markedly discolorous
14
752
Leaves with veins markedly impressed above
4
1007
Ripe fruit black
5
503
Stipules interpetiolar
5
103
Stem winged
15
714
Leaves pedate
4
756
Leaf base asymmetric
2
754
Leaves with a fissure on the underside of the lamina
6
747
Leaf base cordate
30
1104
Seeds with floss (long cottony hairs)
16
17
Biennials
3
1102
Seeds with long hairs
15
507
Stipules auriculate, amplexicaul or semi-amplexicaul
2
749
Leaves with black dots
5
918
Corolla hairy
1
202
Orange-brown sap
1
510
Stipules conspicuous
4
11
Bearing hardened petioles
1
1015
Fruit pendulous
5
302
Aromatic? E.g. labiatae
2
904
Corolla / petals fimbriate/2-fid
1
915
Calyx circumscissile
11
748
Leaves with auricles
4
728
Leaves bullate
1
703
Leaves alternate in families with generally opposite leaves
2
406
Hairs with bulbous bases
2
504
Stipules (or pseudostipules) present in families generally without stipules
4
405
Hooked hairs
1
914
Calyx winged
1
1006
Ripe fruit yellow
4
1017
Fruits beaked
14
919
Calyx spathaceous
4
105
Stem absent or very short, with a basal rosette, the flowers borne on peduncles
5
509
Stipules bifid or with 2 lobes
7
508
Stipules fimbriate or laciniate
2
1003
Ripe fruit blue
4
806
Inflorescence partly or wholly enclosed within an involucre
1
403
Y-shaped (or forked) hairs
1
26
Plant a mangrove
7
Total
8524
Number of different spot ids found: 154
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Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M.
(2025)
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