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in a flowering plant, including its anther, any filament, attachment, development and reproductive condition; it distinguishes fertile stamens from sterile staminodes and other floral organs.", "in_scope": [ "Identification and boundaries of an individual stamen, including fused or modified forms", "Anther structure, filament presence and attachment within the flower", "Development, pollen production and anther opening", "Stamen position and functional differences within the flower", "Condition assessment and consequences of observing, sampling or removing a stamen" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Whole-plant taxonomy, habitat, geographic range and conservation assessment", "The androecium as the complete set and arrangement of stamens in a flower", "Pollen grains as independently characterised biological entities", "Carpels, ovules, fertilisation and seed development", "Whole-flower pollination systems and breeding programmes beyond the stamen's contribution" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Identify a pollen-producing anther, or developmental evidence of staminal identity in a sterile or modified organ; shape alone does not establish identity.", "Distinguish one stamen from the androecium, which comprises the flower's stamens collectively.", "Distinguish a stamen from a carpel by anther and pollen-bearing structures rather than stigma, style and ovule-bearing structures.", "Do not require a long filament: anthers may have short filaments or be sessile.", "Distinguish a sterile staminode from an immature, damaged or spent fertile stamen using developmental and comparative evidence." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Host and flower context", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Host specimen identifier, taxon identification with confidence, flower identifier and position", "why_it_matters": "Stamen identity and expected form depend on the flower and plant to which it belongs." }, { "name": "Staminal identity", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Fertile stamen; 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"description": "Document the basis for identifying an individual stamen where filaments or anthers are joined.", "questions": [ { "text": "Where does this stamen attach, and which tissues are shared or fused with neighbouring floral organs?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "stamen-counting-unit-q01" }, { "text": "Does the observed structure represent one stamen, several fused stamens or an unresolved staminal complex?", "kind": "definition", "id": "stamen-counting-unit-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "anther-filament-architecture", "name": "Anther and filament architecture", "description": "Describe the structures that support, position and contain the pollen-bearing tissues.", "rationale": "Anther configuration and filament attachment affect recognition, movement, measurement and access to pollen.", "layers": [ { "id": "anther-structure", "name": "Anther structure", "description": "Characterise the anther without imposing a single anatomical pattern.", "findings": [ { "id": "pollen-bearing-compartments", "name": "Pollen-bearing compartments", "description": "Record observable anther divisions and internal compartments with their developmental and observational context.", "questions": [ { "text": "What anther lobes, thecae or pollen sacs can actually be distinguished, and by which observation method?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "pollen-bearing-compartments-q01" }, { "text": "Could developmental change, section orientation or specimen preparation explain the apparent compartment arrangement?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "pollen-bearing-compartments-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "filament-and-attachment", "name": "Filament and attachment", "description": "Describe support length, insertion and anther mobility.", "findings": [ { "id": "support-and-mobility", "name": "Support and mobility", "description": "Record whether a filament is distinct and how its attachment permits or restricts anther movement.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is a filament present, how long is it, and where does it join the anther?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "support-and-mobility-q01" }, { "text": "What anther movement occurs during gentle observation, and could testing that movement damage the attachment?", "kind": "action", "id": "support-and-mobility-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "development-and-pollen-release", "name": "Development and pollen release", "description": "Track maturation and the transition from contained pollen to pollen availability.", "rationale": "An unopened or empty anther has different meanings before maturity, after release and following developmental failure.", "layers": [ { "id": "stamen-development", "name": "Stamen development", "description": "Establish developmental stage and evidence of pollen formation.", "findings": [ { "id": "maturation-versus-sterility", "name": "Maturation versus sterility", "description": "Keep developmental delay, persistent sterility and post-release depletion as separate interpretations.", "questions": [ { "text": "What observations place this stamen at its current developmental stage relative to flower opening?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "maturation-versus-sterility-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence distinguishes a staminode from a fertile stamen that is immature, spent or damaged?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "maturation-versus-sterility-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "anther-opening-and-release", "name": "Anther opening and release", "description": "Observe how and when pollen leaves the anther.", "findings": [ { "id": "release-mechanism-and-conditions", "name": "Release mechanism and conditions", "description": "Record opening geometry and actual pollen release separately, including conditions and applied stimuli.", "questions": [ { "text": "Where and how does the anther open, and is pollen release directly observed?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "release-mechanism-and-conditions-q01" }, { "text": "Under what recorded conditions or applied stimuli does release occur, and which remain 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of stamens by length, shape or position within this flower?", "kind": "relation", "id": "anther-placement-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "functional-evidence", "name": "Functional evidence", "description": "Separate observed interactions from inferred reproductive roles.", "findings": [ { "id": "contact-and-reproductive-contribution", "name": "Contact and reproductive contribution", "description": "Record evidence for pollen transfer, visitor contact or another role without deriving function from form alone.", "questions": [ { "text": "What direct observations show contact with a floral visitor or transfer of pollen from this stamen?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "contact-and-reproductive-contribution-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence supports any proposed specialised role, such as feeding visitors or placing pollen, for this stamen?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "contact-and-reproductive-contribution-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-intervention", "name": "Condition and 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"kind": "provenance", "id": "condition-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "sampling-and-removal", "name": "Sampling and removal", "description": "Choose interventions according to anther structure, stage and the intended use of the flower.", "findings": [ { "id": "intervention-selection", "name": "Intervention selection", "description": "Record the purpose, timing and consequences of pollen collection, dissection or stamen removal.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which collection or dissection method suits this anther's opening mechanism and attachment?", "kind": "action", "id": "intervention-selection-q01" }, { "text": "If removal is intended to prevent self-pollen contribution, has pollen already been released, and which adjacent tissues could the procedure affect?", "kind": "action", "id": "intervention-selection-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered 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"evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of stamen this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Abnormal anther or pollen development can cause male sterility.", "Failure of anthers to open can prevent normal pollen release.", "Heat, cold or water stress during reproductive development can impair pollen production or viability; sensitivity varies among species.", "Pollen released from anthers can cause allergic reactions in susceptible people, particularly when dispersed through air." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of stamen this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": 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"knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a stamen is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers", "name": "Stable identifiers and external keys", "description": "Identifiers that keep pointing at this kind of thing across systems and languages.", "questions": [ { "id": "stable-identifiers-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an identifier for a stamen, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a stamen, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a stamen is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "classification-and-granularity", "name": "Classification and granularity", "description": "Where a stamen sits among kinds, and how finely a task needs to cut it.", "findings": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents", "name": "Kind, parents and neighbouring kinds", "description": "The classes this thing belongs to and the ones it is next to.", "questions": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the kind of a stamen, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the kind of a stamen, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": 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"evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a stamen is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "form-and-composition", "name": "Form, composition and condition", "description": "What a stamen is made of, what shape and size it takes, and what state it is in.", "rationale": "A physical thing can be measured, and a model that cannot record its measurements cannot support any decision that depends on them.", "layers": [ { "id": "form-and-dimensions", "name": "Form and dimensions", "description": "Shape, size, mass and the ranges these take across examples.", "findings": [ { "id": "measurable-dimensions", "name": "Measurable dimensions and their units", "description": "The quantities worth recording and the units they are recorded in.", "questions": [ { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the dimensions of a stamen, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the dimensions of a stamen, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the dimensions of a stamen is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "material-and-composition", "name": "Material and composition", "description": "Anatomy, parts and life stage.", "findings": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials", "name": "Parts and life stages", "description": "The parts of a stamen and the stages it passes through.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a stamen, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "parts-and-materials-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the composition of a stamen, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "parts-and-materials-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the composition of a stamen is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-integrity", "name": "Condition and integrity", "description": "Wear, damage, health and the difference between working and broken.", "findings": [ { "id": "condition-assessment", "name": "Condition, damage and health", "description": "How the condition of a stamen is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a stamen, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "condition-assessment-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the condition of a stamen, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "condition-assessment-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the condition of a stamen is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "place-and-movement", "name": "Place and movement", "description": "Where a stamen is, how it got there and where it may go (self-moving).", "rationale": "A thing that can move needs its position recorded with a time, or every later claim about it is about a place it has left.", "layers": [ { "id": "location-and-placement", "name": "Location and placement", "description": "Position, containment and the reference frame the position is given in.", "findings": [ { "id": "position-and-frame", "name": "Position, container and reference frame", "description": "Where a stamen is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a stamen, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the location of a stamen, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the location of a stamen is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "movement-and-transfer", "name": "Movement and transfer", "description": "How a stamen moves on its own.", "findings": [ { "id": "movement-events", "name": "Movement events and constraints", "description": "What counts as a movement, what records it and what limits it.", "questions": [ { "id": "movement-events-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the movement of a stamen, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the movement of a stamen, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the movement of a stamen is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "state-and-lifecycle", "name": "State and lifecycle", "description": "The states a stamen passes through and the events that move it between them.", "rationale": "Most decisions about a thing depend on what state it is in now, which is a claim with a time on it, not a property.", "layers": [ { "id": "lifecycle-stages", "name": "Lifecycle stages", "description": "From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.", "findings": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions", "name": "Stages and transitions", "description": "The stages worth naming and what moves a stamen between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a stamen, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a stamen, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a stamen is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "observations-and-status", "name": "Observations and current status", "description": "What is observed about a stamen, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a stamen is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.", "questions": [ { "id": "observation-record-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a stamen, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an observation of a stamen, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a stamen is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "taxonomic-placement", "name": "Taxonomic placement and identification", "description": "What stamen is called scientifically, by whose authority, and how a specimen is recognised.", "rationale": "Names change with revisions while the organism does not, so a name without its authority and date cannot be reconciled later.", "layers": [ { "id": "accepted-name", "name": "Accepted name and synonymy", "description": "The current binomial, its author and date, and the names it replaced.", "findings": [ { "id": "name-and-authority", "name": "Accepted name, authority and synonyms", "description": "What to record so a later revision can be applied without losing the old data.", "questions": [ { "id": "name-and-authority-q01", "text": "What is the accepted scientific name of stamen, with its author and year, and which synonyms does it absorb?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "name-and-authority-q02", "text": "Which taxonomic authority is being followed, and what would a competing authority say?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "field-identification", "name": "Field identification", "description": "The characters that separate stamen from what it is confused with.", "findings": [ { "id": "diagnostic-characters", "name": "Diagnostic characters and confusable kinds", "description": "Features that settle an identification, and those that only suggest it.", "questions": [ { "id": "diagnostic-characters-q01", "text": "Which observable characters distinguish stamen from its closest look-alikes, and at which life stage are they visible?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "diagnostic-characters-q02", "text": "What evidence is enough to record an identification as confirmed rather than provisional?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "life-cycle-and-condition", "name": "Life stages, condition and behaviour", "description": "What stamen does over its life and how its state is judged.", "rationale": "Stage and condition change what may be done - handled, treated, harvested, left alone - and both are observations with a time.", "layers": [ { "id": "stages-and-reproduction", "name": "Stages and reproduction", "description": "Development from origin to death, including forms that look like different animals.", "findings": [ { "id": "life-stages", "name": "Life stages and their marks", "description": "The stages worth recording and what tells them apart.", "questions": [ { "id": "life-stages-q01", "text": "What stages does stamen pass through, and what observable change marks each transition?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "life-stages-q02", "text": "Which stages are so unlike the adult that they are mistaken for another kind?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "health-and-condition", "name": "Health and condition", "description": "How condition is assessed and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "condition-assessment", "name": "Condition assessment", "description": "Signs of health, injury and stress, and who is competent to judge them.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "How is the condition of stamen judged, on what scale, and by whom?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "condition-assessment-q02", "text": "What condition obliges an agent to act, and what act is permitted to whom?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "range-and-status", "name": "Habitat, range and conservation status", "description": "Where stamen lives and how threatened it is.", "rationale": "Range and status govern what is lawful, and both are assessments with an assessor and a year rather than facts of nature.", "layers": [ { "id": "habitat-and-range", "name": "Habitat and range", "description": "Native range, introductions and the habitat it needs.", "findings": [ { "id": "range-record", "name": "Range, introductions and habitat", "description": "What to record about where it is found and how it got there.", "questions": [ { "id": "range-record-q01", "text": "What is the native range of stamen, where has it been introduced, and what habitat does it require?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "range-record-q02", "text": "What distinguishes a native record from an introduced or vagrant one?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "protection-status", "name": "Protection and legal status", "description": "Conservation assessments and the rules that follow from them.", "findings": [ { "id": "status-and-rules", "name": "Conservation status and legal consequence", "description": "The assessment, its date, and what it forbids or requires where.", "questions": [ { "id": "status-and-rules-q01", "text": "What conservation status does stamen hold, under which assessment and year?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "status-and-rules-q02", "text": "What does that status forbid or require of an agent, and in which jurisdiction?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a stamen came from and when it held.", "rationale": "A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.", "layers": [ { "id": "source-and-authority", "name": "Source and authority", "description": "Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.", "findings": [ { "id": "claim-provenance", "name": "Claim provenance and confidence", "description": "The authority behind each claim about a stamen and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a stamen, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a claim about a stamen, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a stamen is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "time-and-versions", "name": "Time, versions and supersession", "description": "When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.", "findings": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession", "name": "Validity period and supersession", "description": "How an old claim about a stamen is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a stamen, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a stamen, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a stamen is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 8, "layers": 17, "findings": 19, "questions": 51 } } } }