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[Kew family description](https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn%3Alsid%3Aipni.org%3Anames%3A77126743-1/general-information)", "Link autumn flowers and spring foliage at the same marked position; seasonal separation supports identification but is not unique to this species. [RHS Colchicum guide](https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/colchicum)", "Check erect, broad strap-shaped leaves and crocus-like lavender-pink flowers against the species description; colour alone cannot establish identity. [RHS species profile](https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/4190/colchicum-autumnale/details)", "For separation from other Colchicum species and horticultural hybrids, require a regional identification key using measured floral and vegetative characters; an 'autumn crocus' label is insufficient." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Identification confidence", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "unassessed | suspected Colchicum | probable C. autumnale | verified C. autumnale | conflicting", "why_it_matters": "Controls whether species-specific conclusions are justified." }, { "name": "Visible organ combination", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "flowers | leaves | capsules | exposed corm | detached material | no visible organs; multiple values permitted", "why_it_matters": "Determines which identification and condition checks are possible." }, { "name": "Stamen count", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "count per intact flower; unobservable recorded separately", "why_it_matters": "Supports discrimination between Colchicum and Crocus." }, { "name": "Leaf dimensions", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "length and maximum width in mm, with leaf maturity", "why_it_matters": "Provides comparable evidence for identification without relying on photographs alone." }, { "name": "Seasonal phase", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "flowering | leaf growth | fruit development | senescence | presumed dormancy | unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Prevents seasonal disappearance from being treated automatically as death." }, { "name": "Observation continuity", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "dated observation linked to marked plant position or mapped patch", "why_it_matters": "Connects organs seen in different seasons without assuming nearby plants are one individual." }, { "name": "Corm condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "unexamined | apparently intact | damaged | soft or decaying | viability unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Supports assessment of underground persistence when examination is justified." }, { "name": "Local water regime", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "dry | moist and draining | intermittently saturated | persistently waterlogged | unknown", "why_it_matters": "Helps assess site suitability and investigate decline." }, { "name": "Occurrence origin", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "documented planting | documented wild occurrence | suspected escape | unknown", "why_it_matters": "Separates cultivation history from assumptions based on location." }, { "name": "Exposure connection", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "plant material linked to accessible people, animals, food collection or forage", "why_it_matters": "Makes toxic-material precautions depend on actual access and material movement." } ], "affordances": [ "Document flowers and leaves without destructive sampling and request expert identification when evidence is incomplete", "Schedule repeat visits to connect autumn flowering with spring foliage at marked locations", "Assess growing conditions and propose care based on observed seasonal phase and site evidence", "Plan authorised propagation from documented material with identity and provenance retained", "Mark or restrict access to toxic plant material and flag possible food or forage contamination", "Record suspected exposure and hand off to appropriate human or veterinary emergency services" ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "species-recognition", "name": "Species recognition", "description": "Establish whether an observation belongs to the registered species.", "rationale": "Common names and crocus-like flowers can conceal both genus-level and species-level misidentification.", "layers": [ { "id": "taxonomic-assignment", "name": "Taxonomic assignment", "description": "Connect the determination to the species concept and its supporting evidence.", "findings": [ { "id": "accepted-species-link", "name": "Accepted species link", "description": "Record the determination against Colchicum autumnale L., an accepted species, while keeping supplier names and cultivar claims distinguishable from verified identity. [Kew POWO](https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn%3Alsid%3Aipni.org%3Anames%3A533232-1/general-information)", "questions": [ { "text": "Which taxonomic reference and version support the determination as Colchicum autumnale?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "accepted-species-link-q01" }, { "text": "Does a cultivar or hybrid label support inclusion in this species, or leave its assignment unresolved?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "accepted-species-link-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "diagnostic-observations", "name": "Diagnostic observations", "description": "Separate observed characters from identification conclusions.", "findings": [ { "id": "lookalike-exclusion", "name": "Lookalike exclusion", "description": "Retain organ photographs, measurements and the key steps used to exclude Crocus and other Colchicum candidates.", "questions": [ { "text": "How many stamens are visible in an intact flower, and which leaf and floral measurements are available?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "lookalike-exclusion-q01" }, { "text": "Which regional key characters exclude the remaining Colchicum species or hybrids?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "lookalike-exclusion-q02" }, { "text": "What additional observation or expert determination is needed before accepting the species identification?", "kind": "action", "id": "lookalike-exclusion-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "seasonal-organ-continuity", "name": "Seasonal organ continuity", "description": "Interpret observations across the separated flowering and foliage seasons.", "rationale": "A single visit can miss the organs needed to identify the plant or assess its persistence.", "layers": [ { "id": "phenological-sequence", "name": "Phenological sequence", "description": "Record local timing instead of assuming a universal calendar.", "findings": [ { "id": "dated-organ-emergence", "name": "Dated organ emergence", "description": "Track flowering, leaf emergence, fruit appearance and senescence as observations tied to place and year.", "questions": [ { "text": "On what dates were flowers, green leaves, capsules and senescent foliage observed?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "dated-organ-emergence-q01" }, { "text": "Which marked position or other evidence connects observations from different seasons?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "dated-organ-emergence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "underground-persistence", "name": "Underground persistence", "description": "Assess what absence above ground says about a corm-bearing perennial.", "findings": [ { "id": "dormancy-versus-loss", "name": "Dormancy versus loss", "description": "Keep presumed dormancy, failed detection, removal and confirmed death as separate interpretations.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the absence of visible organs fit the site's previously observed seasonal sequence?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "dormancy-versus-loss-q01" }, { "text": "Would a repeat seasonal visit resolve persistence, or is authorised corm examination justified?", "kind": "action", "id": "dormancy-versus-loss-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "site-and-plant-condition", "name": "Site and plant condition", "description": "Relate observed condition to the immediate growing environment.", "rationale": "Seasonal senescence, physical damage and unsuitable conditions imply different actions.", "layers": [ { "id": "growing-site", "name": "Growing site", "description": "Describe the plant's location, establishment history and water regime.", "findings": [ { "id": "establishment-context", "name": "Establishment context", "description": "Record drainage and planting history; moist but well-drained soil is the horticultural reference, and waterlogging is unsuitable. [RHS species profile](https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/4190/colchicum-autumnale/details)", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence establishes whether this occurrence was planted, wild or of unknown origin?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "establishment-context-q01" }, { "text": "What soil moisture, standing-water duration and light exposure have been observed at the plant?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "establishment-context-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-interpretation", "name": "Condition interpretation", "description": "Distinguish recorded symptoms from proposed causes.", "findings": [ { "id": "organ-damage-and-decline", "name": "Organ damage and decline", "description": "Track leaf, flower and accessible corm damage without converting symptoms into an unsupported diagnosis.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which organs show damage, discoloration or decay, and how has its extent changed?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "organ-damage-and-decline-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence separates expected senescence from premature decline or physical injury?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "organ-damage-and-decline-q02" }, { "text": "Which observation or site correction is justified before attempting a targeted treatment?", "kind": "action", "id": "organ-damage-and-decline-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "reproduction-and-intervention", "name": "Reproduction and intervention", "description": "Assess reproductive evidence and condition cultivation actions on seasonal state.", "rationale": "Flower abundance does not establish recruitment, and corm disturbance requires appropriate timing and authority.", "layers": [ { "id": "reproductive-evidence", "name": "Reproductive evidence", "description": "Separate flowering, fruiting and observed establishment.", "findings": [ { "id": "recruitment-and-patch-change", "name": "Recruitment and patch change", "description": "Record capsules, seeds and newly appearing plants while retaining uncertainty about seedlings versus vegetative growth.", "questions": [ { "text": "What counts of flowers, capsules and newly observed shoots are available for the same mapped patch?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "recruitment-and-patch-change-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence distinguishes seedling recruitment from corm multiplication or improved detection?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "recruitment-and-patch-change-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "cultivation-decisions", "name": "Cultivation decisions", "description": "Choose interventions using observed phase, provenance and local authority.", "findings": [ { "id": "propagation-and-disturbance-window", "name": "Propagation and disturbance window", "description": "Use ripe seed or dormant-summer corm separation as horticultural reference options, subject to local timing and permission. [RHS species profile](https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/4190/colchicum-autumnale/details)", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence shows seed ripeness or corm dormancy at this site?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "propagation-and-disturbance-window-q01" }, { "text": "Do ownership and applicable conservation constraints permit collection, division or relocation?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "propagation-and-disturbance-window-q02" }, { "text": "How will an authorised intervention preserve provenance and allow later assessment of survival?", "kind": "action", "id": "propagation-and-disturbance-window-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "toxic-material-and-exposure", "name": "Toxic material and exposure", "description": "Connect plant identity and material movement to exposure prevention.", "rationale": "A mistaken edible-plant identification or accessible discarded material changes what an agent may safely recommend.", "layers": [ { "id": "hazard-recognition", "name": "Hazard recognition", "description": "Keep ingestion hazard explicit for plants and attributable parts.", "findings": [ { "id": "toxic-plant-designation", "name": "Toxic plant designation", "description": "Record toxicity if eaten and protective handling requirements; do not infer edibility from a common name. [RHS species profile](https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/4190/colchicum-autumnale/details)", "questions": [ { "text": "Which living or detached material is confirmed or suspected to belong to this plant?", "kind": "definition", "id": "toxic-plant-designation-q01" }, { "text": "Could its name, appearance or collection location cause it to enter food or forage?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "toxic-plant-designation-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "access-and-response", "name": "Access and response", "description": "Translate observed access or suspected ingestion into an appropriate handoff.", "findings": [ { "id": "exposure-control-and-handoff", "name": "Exposure control and handoff", "description": "Record who or what can reach the material, implement justified access controls, and route suspected ingestion to emergency expertise without deriving treatment from this model.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which people or animals can access the plant, collected parts or discarded material?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "exposure-control-and-handoff-q01" }, { "text": "What marking, separation or controlled handling action would interrupt the observed exposure route?", "kind": "action", "id": "exposure-control-and-handoff-q02" }, { "text": "If ingestion is suspected, which emergency service should receive the plant evidence, exposure time and reported circumstances?", "kind": "action", "id": "exposure-control-and-handoff-q03" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Which regional identification keys provide reliable species-level separation from locally occurring Colchicum species and horticultural hybrids?", "Which vegetative characters reliably distinguish nonflowering plants from locally relevant edible lookalikes, and when is expert examination necessary?", "How do local climate and cultivation alter flowering, foliage, fruiting and dormancy dates?", "What monitoring evidence can distinguish seedling recruitment, corm multiplication and seasonal detection differences without destructive sampling?", "Which local conservation restrictions, disposal requirements and forage-contamination guidance apply to the occurrence being modelled?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 10, "findings": 10, "questions": 24 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "organism", "method": "Written from the archetype playbook - what this kind of thing needs beyond identity and provenance - and from the structure that recurred across 6,333 models already researched by two engines. 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A sighting is settled by characters, a photograph and a place, not by a name alone." ], "relatedModels": [], "standing": "Described in 61 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one Colchicum autumnale from another, and a Colchicum autumnale from things that resemble it.", "rationale": "Recognition comes before every other claim. Without stable identity nothing else in the model can be trusted to be about the same thing twice.", "layers": [ { "id": "naming-and-identifiers", "name": "Names and identifiers", "description": "The names this thing goes by and the identifiers that survive translation and time.", "findings": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases", "name": "Preferred name, aliases and local names", "description": "Which name to use, which names mean the same thing, and which merely sound similar.", "questions": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the name of a Colchicum autumnale, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the name of a Colchicum autumnale, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a Colchicum autumnale 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 Colchicum autumnale, 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 Colchicum autumnale, 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 Colchicum autumnale 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 Colchicum autumnale 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 Colchicum autumnale, 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 Colchicum autumnale, 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 Colchicum autumnale 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 Colchicum autumnale from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Colchicum autumnale, 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 Colchicum autumnale, 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 Colchicum autumnale 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 Colchicum autumnale 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 Colchicum autumnale, 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 Colchicum autumnale, 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 Colchicum autumnale 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 Colchicum autumnale and the stages it passes through.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a Colchicum autumnale, 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 Colchicum autumnale, 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 Colchicum autumnale 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 Colchicum autumnale is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a Colchicum autumnale, 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 Colchicum autumnale, 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 Colchicum autumnale 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 Colchicum autumnale 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 Colchicum autumnale is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a Colchicum autumnale, 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 Colchicum autumnale, 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 Colchicum autumnale 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 Colchicum autumnale 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 Colchicum autumnale, 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 Colchicum autumnale, 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 Colchicum autumnale 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 Colchicum autumnale 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 Colchicum autumnale between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Colchicum autumnale, 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 Colchicum autumnale, 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 Colchicum autumnale 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 Colchicum autumnale, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Colchicum autumnale 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 Colchicum autumnale, 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 Colchicum autumnale, 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 Colchicum autumnale 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 Colchicum autumnale 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 Colchicum autumnale, 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 Colchicum autumnale 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 Colchicum autumnale 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 Colchicum autumnale 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 Colchicum autumnale 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 Colchicum autumnale 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 Colchicum autumnale 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 Colchicum autumnale, 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 Colchicum autumnale 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 Colchicum autumnale 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 Colchicum autumnale and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Colchicum autumnale, 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 Colchicum autumnale, 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 Colchicum autumnale 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 Colchicum autumnale is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Colchicum autumnale, 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 Colchicum autumnale, 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 Colchicum autumnale 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 } } } }