Acronychia pauciflora
Author: T.G. Hartley
Acronychia pauciflora
method_context: trait scoring method==scored from text <<Trait value scored directly from taxon description.>>
The dominant photosynthetic organ was scored as leaf, phyllode or cladode based on use of these terms in the text. Plants described as leafless or in some cases as possessing leaves reduced to scales or caducous leaves were scored as cladode.
This dataset is sourced from the The Flora of Australia online website (version date 2022-09-14). Briefly, the textual descriptions of each taxon were downloaded and organised into a tabular format of individual taxon names and their corresponding text using R coding script. Sentences and phrases were categorised using a large glossary of botanical terminology as referring to one of the following, the entire organism, stem, leaf, flower, fruit/seed, roots and environment/habitat. Key terms corresponding to trait values in AusTraits were then extracted from these smaller chunks of text using a reference table containing a) the AusTraits trait name, b) the AusTraits trait value and c) terms to search for in the text. The resulting traits were then checked manually using a subset of ~500 taxa to search for errors and update the reference table and coding script accordingly. The process was repeated iteratively to remove any wrongly classified trait values and to ensure as many correct trait values as possible were captured using the algorithm. Where possible, unclassified taxa were inferred as possessing a trait value from a higher-level taxonomic description e.g. the fruit type of all taxa in the Adenanthos genus were scored as `achene`, which was mentioned only in the genus description.
Acronychia pauciflora
Qld, NSW
Acronychia pauciflora C.T.White
Acronychia pauciflora