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(1753) is a tropical woody plant species in the family Oxalidaceae, cultivated for its fleshy, longitudinally ribbed fruits, commonly called carambolas or starfruit.", "scope_statement": "This model owns the species-level identity of vr.tr.averrhoa-carambola in PHY / PHY.LIV and the evidence needed to interpret its individual trees, cultivated accessions and populations, while keeping those observation levels distinct.", "in_scope": [ "Accepted taxonomic identity, name authority and identification evidence", "Individual development, flowering, fruiting and reproductive performance", "Cultivar, propagation, scion and rootstock provenance", "Native, introduced, cultivated and naturalized occurrences", "Tree condition, environmental suitability and population conservation evidence" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Averrhoa bilimbi and other related species as independent taxa", "Detached starfruit products, recipes and commercial food specifications", "Clinical diagnosis or treatment following starfruit consumption", "Orchard businesses, supply chains and market pricing", "General plant physiology and cultivation machinery" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Resolve the scientific name to Averrhoa carambola L., published in 1753 and accepted within Oxalidaceae; a common name alone is insufficient. [Kew POWO](https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn%3Alsid%3Aipni.org%3Anames%3A371870-1/general-information)", "Check fruit for prominent longitudinal ribs, usually five, producing a star-shaped cross-section; record atypical rib counts instead of automatically rejecting the identification. [UF/IFAS](https://ask.ifas.ufl.edu/publication/mg269)", "Corroborate fruit identification with alternate compound leaves and small pink-to-lavender, five-petalled flowers; use the combined characters when distinguishing other Averrhoa. [UF/IFAS](https://ask.ifas.ufl.edu/publication/mg269)", "Treat labels such as bilimbi, sweet carambola or sour carambola as identification leads requiring botanical or accession evidence, rather than proof of species or cultivar identity." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Taxonomic determination", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Accepted taxon, authority, backbone version, identifier and supporting determination", "why_it_matters": "Connects observations to this species without merging similarly named plants." }, { "name": "Observation level", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Species; population; cultivated accession; individual tree; attached organ", "why_it_matters": "Prevents an orchard yield or damaged leaf from becoming a species-wide claim." }, { "name": "Fruit rib morphology", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Rib count; fruit length in mm; cross-section image", "why_it_matters": "Provides reproducible evidence for the characteristic starfruit identification." }, { "name": "Cultivar and graft identity", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Documented cultivar, seed parent, scion, rootstock and propagation source; unknown permitted", "why_it_matters": "Separates inherited fruit traits from rootstock and growing-site effects." }, { "name": "Development and phenology", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Seed; seedling; juvenile; mature tree; dated vegetative, flowering and fruiting observations", "why_it_matters": "Supports stage-appropriate care and locally grounded harvest expectations." }, { "name": "Floral form and compatibility", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Long-styled; short-styled; unobserved; compatibility supported by a named trial or source", "why_it_matters": "Keeps floral form distinct from demonstrated pollination success." }, { "name": "Reproductive performance", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Fruit set percentage with denominator; fruits per tree; kg per tree per stated interval", "why_it_matters": "Makes low fruiting assessable against flowering, pollination and tree condition." }, { "name": "Root-zone and exposure conditions", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Soil pH; electrical conductivity in dS/m with method; moisture; inundation hours; minimum temperature in °C", "why_it_matters": "Supports diagnosis of site-related stress without assigning universal tolerance thresholds." }, { "name": "Occurrence establishment", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Native wild; planted; escaped; naturalized; uncertain, with locality and evidence", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes cultivation records from native distribution and autonomous recruitment." }, { "name": "Conservation assessment", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Assessment body, category, year, geographic scope and source; verification pending permitted", "why_it_matters": "Keeps formal assessment separate from predictive risk and local abundance." } ], "affordances": [ "Evaluate a proposed identification using fruit, foliage, flowers and voucher evidence.", "Compare planting sites using documented carambola requirements and local exposure measurements.", "Select propagation material using cultivar and graft provenance.", "Investigate poor fruit set using flowering overlap, floral form and observed pollination outcomes.", "Prioritize tree inspections from symptom patterns and measured environmental stress.", "Classify occurrences and identify evidence needed for population or conservation decisions." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "species-identity", "name": "Species identity", "description": "Anchor carambola observations to a defensible taxonomic concept.", "rationale": "Starfruit names, related Averrhoa and horticultural labels can otherwise produce mixed records.", "layers": [ { "id": "taxonomic-anchor", "name": "Taxonomic anchor", "description": "Resolve the accepted name and external taxon mappings.", "findings": [ { "id": "accepted-name-and-mappings", "name": "Accepted name and mappings", "description": "Use Averrhoa carambola L., first published in 1753, as the initial accepted-name anchor; verify each external identifier independently. [Kew POWO](https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn%3Alsid%3Aipni.org%3Anames%3A371870-1/general-information)", "questions": [ { "text": "Which taxonomic source and version establish the accepted name, authority and family?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "accepted-name-and-mappings-q01" }, { "text": "Which GBIF and NCBI identifiers resolve to this species rather than a synonym, genus or accession?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "accepted-name-and-mappings-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "identification-evidence", "name": "Identification evidence", "description": "Test the proposed species determination against observable organs.", "findings": [ { "id": "combined-character-determination", "name": "Combined-character determination", "description": "Require a documented combination of fruit, leaf and flower characters, with an explicit confidence limit for sterile specimens.", "questions": [ { "text": "Do fruit ribbing, leaf arrangement and flower characters jointly support carambola?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "combined-character-determination-q01" }, { "text": "What diagnostic key or voucher excludes Averrhoa bilimbi and other plausible regional lookalikes?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "combined-character-determination-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "cultivar-and-development", "name": "Cultivar and development", "description": "Interpret a tree through its propagation history and current developmental condition.", "rationale": "Species identity alone cannot establish cultivar traits, graft composition or reproductive maturity.", "layers": [ { "id": "propagation-lineage", "name": "Propagation lineage", "description": "Track how the observed tree was produced.", "findings": [ { "id": "accession-and-graft-provenance", "name": "Accession and graft provenance", "description": "Separate cultivar claims, seedling parentage, scion identity and rootstock identity; preserve missing provenance explicitly.", "questions": [ { "text": "Was this tree seed-grown or vegetatively propagated, and what records support its cultivar label?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "accession-and-graft-provenance-q01" }, { "text": "If grafted, which observed shoots and fruit belong to the scion rather than rootstock growth?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "accession-and-graft-provenance-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "developmental-trajectory", "name": "Developmental trajectory", "description": "Follow establishment and recurrent growth or reproductive phases.", "findings": [ { "id": "tree-stage-and-seasonality", "name": "Tree stage and seasonality", "description": "Record developmental stage separately from overlapping flowering and fruiting events, using local observations rather than an imported calendar.", "questions": [ { "text": "What are the tree's estimated age, establishment date and evidence of reproductive maturity?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "tree-stage-and-seasonality-q01" }, { "text": "When did leaf flush, flowering, fruit set and ripening occur at this site?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "tree-stage-and-seasonality-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "flowering-and-fruit-set", "name": "Flowering and fruit set", "description": "Connect floral form, pollination conditions and reproductive outcomes.", "rationale": "Carambola flowering does not by itself establish compatibility or predict fruit yield.", "layers": [ { "id": "floral-biology", "name": "Floral biology", "description": "Distinguish floral morphology from sex and tested compatibility.", "findings": [ { "id": "style-form-and-compatibility", "name": "Style form and compatibility", "description": "Carambola has bisexual flowers with long- or short-styled forms; cross-pollination requirements vary by cultivar. Do not encode these forms as separate male and female trees. [UF/IFAS](https://ask.ifas.ufl.edu/publication/mg269)", "questions": [ { "text": "Which style form is observed, and how was it determined?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "style-form-and-compatibility-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence supports self-fruiting or a compatible pollen partner for this cultivar?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "style-form-and-compatibility-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "reproductive-outcomes", "name": "Reproductive outcomes", "description": "Measure progression from flowers to mature attached fruit.", "findings": [ { "id": "fruit-set-and-retention", "name": "Fruit set and retention", "description": "Relate flowering overlap and pollinator observations to measured set, fruit loss and maturity.", "questions": [ { "text": "What fraction of monitored flowers formed fruit, and how many fruit persisted to the stated maturity criterion?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "fruit-set-and-retention-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence would justify adding a pollen partner rather than changing irrigation or other care?", "kind": "action", "id": "fruit-set-and-retention-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "site-fit-and-tree-condition", "name": "Site fit and tree condition", "description": "Assess carambola exposure, symptoms and appropriate care.", "rationale": "Similar canopy symptoms can have different environmental or biological causes.", "layers": [ { "id": "environmental-exposure", "name": "Environmental exposure", "description": "Measure the conditions experienced by this tree.", "findings": [ { "id": "root-zone-and-weather-fit", "name": "Root-zone and weather fit", "description": "Evaluate temperature, water availability, drainage, wind, salinity and soil reaction using guidance applicable to the tree and region.", "questions": [ { "text": "What measured exposures preceded changes in canopy condition or fruiting?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "root-zone-and-weather-fit-q01" }, { "text": "Which cultivar-, rootstock- and age-relevant evidence supports retaining or modifying this planting site?", "kind": "action", "id": "root-zone-and-weather-fit-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-intervention", "name": "Condition and intervention", "description": "Distinguish observed damage from its proposed cause.", "findings": [ { "id": "symptom-led-diagnosis", "name": "Symptom-led diagnosis", "description": "Locate chlorosis, wilting, dieback, lesions or fruit damage on the tree and retain competing explanations until examined.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which organs are affected, how severely, and with what temporal and spatial pattern?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "symptom-led-diagnosis-q01" }, { "text": "What inspection, soil test or diagnostic sample is needed before selecting an intervention?", "kind": "action", "id": "symptom-led-diagnosis-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "range-populations-and-use-boundaries", "name": "Range, populations and use boundaries", "description": "Place trees in biogeographic context and delimit species-level decisions.", "rationale": "Widespread cultivation does not establish native range, wild population security or suitability for every use.", "layers": [ { "id": "biogeographic-status", "name": "Biogeographic status", "description": "Separate native distribution from planting and subsequent establishment.", "findings": [ { "id": "occurrence-origin-and-recruitment", "name": "Occurrence origin and recruitment", "description": "Kew places the native range in Central and East Java to Maluku; evaluate individual occurrences against historical and recruitment evidence. [Kew POWO](https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn%3Alsid%3Aipni.org%3Anames%3A371870-1/general-information)", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence distinguishes native, planted, escaped and naturalized carambola at this locality?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "occurrence-origin-and-recruitment-q01" }, { "text": "Are seedlings recruiting and surviving without planting, and over what surveyed area and interval?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "occurrence-origin-and-recruitment-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "assessment-and-action-boundaries", "name": "Assessment and action boundaries", "description": "Keep conservation and use decisions tied to their own evidence.", "findings": [ { "id": "formal-conservation-evidence", "name": "Formal conservation evidence", "description": "Require a dated assessment with geographic scope; do not substitute cultivation abundance or an extinction-risk prediction for an IUCN assessment.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does a formal IUCN assessment exist, and what are its category, assessment year and scope?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "formal-conservation-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Which local population observations justify protection, collection or further monitoring?", "kind": "action", "id": "formal-conservation-evidence-q02" } ] }, { "id": "fruit-use-handoff", "name": "Fruit-use handoff", "description": "Link harvested material to its source tree and a separate food-safety model; 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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 Averrhoa carambola, 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 Averrhoa carambola, 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 Averrhoa carambola 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 Averrhoa carambola, 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 Averrhoa carambola, 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 Averrhoa carambola 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 Averrhoa carambola 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 Averrhoa carambola, 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 Averrhoa carambola, 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 Averrhoa carambola 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 Averrhoa carambola from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Averrhoa carambola, 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 Averrhoa carambola, 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 Averrhoa carambola 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 Averrhoa carambola 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 Averrhoa carambola, 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 Averrhoa carambola, 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 Averrhoa carambola 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 Averrhoa carambola and the stages it passes through.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a Averrhoa carambola, 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 Averrhoa carambola, 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 Averrhoa carambola 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 Averrhoa carambola is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a Averrhoa carambola, 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 Averrhoa carambola, 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 Averrhoa carambola 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 Averrhoa carambola 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 Averrhoa carambola is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a Averrhoa carambola, 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 Averrhoa carambola, 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 Averrhoa carambola 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 Averrhoa carambola 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 Averrhoa carambola, 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 Averrhoa carambola, 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 Averrhoa carambola 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 Averrhoa carambola 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 Averrhoa carambola between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Averrhoa carambola, 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 Averrhoa carambola, 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 Averrhoa carambola 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 Averrhoa carambola, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Averrhoa carambola 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 Averrhoa carambola, 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 Averrhoa carambola, 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 Averrhoa carambola 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 Averrhoa carambola 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 Averrhoa carambola, 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 Averrhoa carambola 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 Averrhoa carambola 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 Averrhoa carambola 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 Averrhoa carambola 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 Averrhoa carambola 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 Averrhoa carambola 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 Averrhoa carambola, 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 Averrhoa carambola 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 Averrhoa carambola 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 Averrhoa carambola and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Averrhoa carambola, 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 Averrhoa carambola, 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 Averrhoa carambola 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 Averrhoa carambola is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Averrhoa carambola, 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 Averrhoa carambola, 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 Averrhoa carambola 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 } } } }