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"name": "Taxonomic determination", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "accepted name, rank, authorship, identification source, determination date and uncertainty", "why_it_matters": "Anchors recognition and subsequent decisions to an identifiable taxon rather than a common name." }, { "name": "Growth form and life history", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "observed growth form; annual | biennial | perennial | unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes management and observation needs across herbaceous, climbing and woody legumes." }, { "name": "Developmental stage", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "seed | germinating | vegetative | flowering | fruiting | senescent | dormant; multiple stages permitted", "why_it_matters": "Determines which identification evidence and interventions are currently available." }, { "name": "Reproductive diagnostic traits", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "flower arrangement and structure; fruit form, segmentation and opening behaviour; 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{ "name": "Geographic and establishment context", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "location; cultivated | spontaneous | unresolved; native or introduced status with geographic authority", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes a planted crop from a wild population and supports location-specific decisions." }, { "name": "Plant health", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "observed symptoms, affected organs, severity, extent and diagnostic confidence", "why_it_matters": "Supports intervention without treating yellowing, poor growth or damaged roots as a confirmed diagnosis." } ], "affordances": [ "Identify a plant to the lowest defensible taxonomic rank using vegetative and reproductive evidence.", "Track flowering, fruit development, seed maturation and recruitment.", "Inspect roots for nodulation and request appropriate evidence before estimating nitrogen fixation.", "Compare site conditions and symptoms with the identified legume's growing requirements.", "Choose whether propagation, planting, collection, retention or removal is appropriate for the taxon and location.", "Refer harvested material to food, feed or seed-lot models while retaining its plant provenance." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "legume-identity-and-boundaries", "name": "Legume identity and boundaries", "description": "Establish which sense of legume is intended and what biological entity is being described.", "rationale": "The word can denote a plant, a fruit or food material, and those senses support different observations and actions.", "layers": [ { "id": "plant-sense-and-entity-level", "name": "Plant sense and entity level", "description": "Separate Fabaceae plants from associated products and distinguish levels of biological organisation.", "findings": [ { "id": "referent-and-biological-unit", "name": "Referent and biological unit", "description": "An agent must establish whether the record concerns a plant taxon, population, individual or crop stand before applying 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"supported-fabaceae-placement-q01" }, { "text": "Which specimen, images or diagnostic observations support the determination, and do available GBIF or NCBI identifiers resolve to the same taxon?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "supported-fabaceae-placement-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "diagnostic-plant-structures", "name": "Diagnostic plant structures", "description": "Record the structures that support recognition across the diversity of legume plants.", "rationale": "A model based only on familiar pea flowers, compound leaves or splitting pods would misidentify or exclude other forms.", "layers": [ { "id": "vegetative-recognition", "name": "Vegetative recognition", "description": "Assess growth habit and vegetative traits when reproductive evidence is unavailable.", "findings": [ { "id": "habit-leaves-and-identification-limits", "name": "Habit, leaves and identification limits", "description": "Vegetative identification should retain the combination of observed traits and the limits of the resulting determination.", "questions": [ { "text": "What growth form, leaf arrangement, leaflet pattern, stipules or climbing structures are actually visible?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "habit-leaves-and-identification-limits-q01" }, { "text": "Which similar plants remain possible until flowers or fruits can be examined?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "habit-leaves-and-identification-limits-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "flowers-fruits-and-seeds", "name": "Flowers, fruits and seeds", "description": "Use reproductive characters to refine identification and distinguish the plant from its products.", "findings": [ { "id": "reproductive-character-combination", "name": "Reproductive character combination", "description": "Flower and fruit observations must be interpreted through an appropriate key rather than a single familiar legume form.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which flower structures and fruit characters distinguish this candidate taxon in the identification key being used?", "kind": "definition", "id": "reproductive-character-combination-q01" }, { "text": "How were fruit maturity, opening behaviour, segmentation and seed arrangement observed?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "reproductive-character-combination-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "life-history-and-regeneration", "name": "Life history and regeneration", "description": "Track establishment, development and reproductive renewal of the legume.", "rationale": "Observation timing, propagation and intervention depend on the plant's life history and reproductive stage.", "layers": [ { "id": "development-and-phenology", "name": "Development and phenology", "description": "Relate observed growth stages to the identified taxon and local growing conditions.", "findings": [ { "id": "stage-specific-condition", "name": "Stage-specific condition", "description": "Developmental observations should distinguish expected seasonal change from failed establishment or abnormal decline.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence 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"reproductive-and-germination-requirements-q01" }, { "text": "Do these seeds require a dormancy-breaking treatment, and what evidence supports the selected germination or propagation procedure?", "kind": "action", "id": "reproductive-and-germination-requirements-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "roots-symbiosis-and-growing-condition", "name": "Roots, symbiosis and growing condition", "description": "Evaluate root associations, nutrient claims and environmental constraints.", "rationale": "Legume management often invokes nitrogen fixation, making it essential to separate taxon-level potential, nodulation and demonstrated activity.", "layers": [ { "id": "nodulation-and-nitrogen-fixation", "name": "Nodulation and nitrogen fixation", "description": "Establish what is known about symbiotic capacity and what has been observed in the plant or stand.", "findings": [ { "id": "symbiosis-evidence", "name": "Symbiosis evidence", "description": "Neither the name legume nor a root nodule observation 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"measurement", "id": "condition-led-intervention-q01" }, { "text": "What diagnosis supports changing irrigation, nutrition or inoculation, and how will the plant's response be checked?", "kind": "action", "id": "condition-led-intervention-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "range-use-and-stewardship", "name": "Range, use and stewardship", "description": "Determine how location, intended use and population status constrain actions involving the legume.", "rationale": "A legume may be a crop, a wild conservation subject or an unwanted introduction; family membership alone does not determine suitable handling.", "layers": [ { "id": "geographic-and-conservation-context", "name": "Geographic and conservation context", "description": "Attach range and conservation evidence to the correct taxon, place and assessment date.", "findings": [ { "id": "location-specific-status", "name": "Location-specific status", "description": "Native range, establishment status and conservation assessments must remain 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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 legume 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 legume, 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 legume, 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 legume 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 legume 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 legume, 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 legume, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a legume is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features", "name": "Distinguishing features", "description": "What separates a legume from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a legume, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a legume, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a legume 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 legume 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 legume, 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 legume, 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 legume 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 legume and the stages it passes through.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a legume, 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 legume, 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 legume 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 legume is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a legume, 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 legume, 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 legume 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 legume 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 legume is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a legume, 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 legume, 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 legume 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 legume 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 legume, 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 legume, 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 legume 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 legume 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 legume between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a legume, 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 legume, 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 legume 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 legume, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a legume 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 legume, 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 legume, 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 legume is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "taxonomic-placement", "name": "Taxonomic placement and 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"field-identification", "name": "Field identification", "description": "The characters that separate legume 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 legume 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 legume 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 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"text": "How is the condition of legume 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 legume 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 legume, 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 legume 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 legume came from and when it held.", "rationale": "A claim without a source and a time 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decide or do once a claim about a legume 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 legume is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a legume, 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 legume, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", 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