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[Kew Plants of the World Online](https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:30185627-2)", "in_scope": [ "Taxonomic interpretation of Allium ascalonicum and evidence connecting a specimen to that interpretation", "Bulb, leaf, flower and fruit observations needed for identification", "Growth, dormancy and reproductive state of identified plants", "Occurrence, habitat and wild or cultivated provenance", "Condition assessment and evidence requirements for propagation or other interventions" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Allium cepa crop production except where needed to resolve name confusion", "The culinary commodity shallot and its recipes, flavour grades or market classes", "General Allium taxonomy beyond identification and boundary relationships", "Independent models of plant pathogens, soil systems or cultivation equipment", "Medicinal efficacy or food-safety claims inferred solely from a plant name" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Check the name's author and cited taxonomic treatment: a label reading Allium ascalonicum alone does not establish which organism concept was intended.", "Require a botanical identification key or expert determination to distinguish the specimen from Allium cepa cultivated shallots; a market label or clustered bulbs alone is insufficient.", "Compare documented bulb, leaf and reproductive characters with the chosen treatment, retaining missing diagnostic characters as identification uncertainty.", "Use locality as supporting evidence: Kew reports an eastern Mediterranean to Arabian Peninsula native range, but geographic agreement alone does not identify a specimen. 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[Kew Plants of the World Online](https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:30185627-2)", "layers": [ { "id": "phenological-observation", "name": "Phenological observation", "description": "Record seasonal transitions for the observed locality and growing conditions.", "findings": [ { "id": "dormancy-or-decline", "name": "Dormancy or decline", "description": "Treat absent or senescing foliage as an observation requiring context rather than automatic evidence of death.", "questions": [ { "text": "When were emergence, flowering and foliage senescence observed for this plant?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "dormancy-or-decline-q01" }, { "text": "What bulb or root observations distinguish seasonal inactivity from deterioration?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "dormancy-or-decline-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "reproductive-evidence", "name": "Reproductive evidence", "description": "Separate observed seed production and vegetative multiplication from assumed crop behaviour.", "findings": [ { "id": "demonstrated-propagation-route", "name": "Demonstrated propagation route", "description": "Record reproductive outcomes for identified material before recommending a propagation method.", "questions": [ { "text": "Has this identified accession produced viable seed, daughter bulbs or neither under observation?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "demonstrated-propagation-route-q01" }, { "text": "Which propagation procedure is supported for this taxonomic concept and accession?", "kind": "action", "id": "demonstrated-propagation-route-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "occurrence-and-growing-context", "name": "Occurrence and growing context", "description": "Connect identified plants with locality, habitat and cultivation history.", "rationale": "Occurrence records support ecological interpretation only when cultivated origins and identification uncertainty remain visible.", "layers": [ { "id": "geographic-provenance", "name": "Geographic provenance", "description": "Track where material was observed and where it originated.", "findings": [ { "id": "wild-versus-planted-occurrence", "name": "Wild versus planted occurrence", "description": "Separate collection locality, current growing location and evidence of wild occurrence.", "questions": [ { "text": "What locality and collection history accompany the specimen or accession?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "wild-versus-planted-occurrence-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence establishes whether this occurrence is wild, planted or of uncertain origin?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "wild-versus-planted-occurrence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "root-zone-and-season", "name": "Root zone and season", "description": "Record measured conditions associated with successful growth or observed stress.", "findings": [ { "id": "conditions-without-assumed-thresholds", "name": "Conditions without assumed thresholds", "description": "Keep measured substrate and seasonal conditions distinct from unverified species-wide cultivation requirements.", "questions": [ { "text": "What substrate, moisture and temperature conditions accompanied emergence and bulb persistence?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "conditions-without-assumed-thresholds-q01" }, { "text": "Which evidence supports changing watering, drainage or exposure for this identified plant?", "kind": "action", "id": "conditions-without-assumed-thresholds-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-intervention", "name": "Condition and intervention", "description": "Assess plant condition and determine which proposed actions have an adequate identification and evidence basis.", "rationale": "Cultivated-shallot practices cannot be transferred automatically to every specimen carrying this scientific name.", "layers": [ { "id": "bulb-and-foliage-assessment", "name": "Bulb and foliage assessment", "description": "Document visible deterioration and its progression before assigning a cause.", "findings": [ { "id": "symptoms-before-diagnosis", "name": "Symptoms before diagnosis", "description": "Record bulb firmness, lesions, foliage changes and root condition separately from suspected pathogens or environmental causes.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which organs are affected, how extensively, and how has their condition changed?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "symptoms-before-diagnosis-q01" }, { "text": "What examination or diagnostic evidence is needed before selecting a treatment?", "kind": "action", "id": "symptoms-before-diagnosis-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "management-applicability", "name": "Management applicability", "description": "Check that a proposed intervention concerns the identified organism and intended purpose.", "findings": [ { "id": "shallot-advice-boundary", "name": "Shallot advice boundary", "description": "RHS shallot guidance includes growing from sets that produce bulb clusters; its applicability to the botanical concept used here must be established before adoption. [RHS shallot growing guide](https://www.rhs.org.uk/vegetables/shallots/grow-your-own)", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the proposed cultivation or storage guidance identify the same taxon as this specimen?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "shallot-advice-boundary-q01" }, { "text": "Is the intended action observation, accession maintenance, propagation or harvest, and what evidence supports it?", "kind": "action", "id": "shallot-advice-boundary-q02" }, { "text": "What outcome and follow-up observations will show whether the intervention benefited the plant?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "shallot-advice-boundary-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; 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asserted this about the kind of a Allium ascalonicum, 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 Allium ascalonicum 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 Allium ascalonicum from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Allium ascalonicum, 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 Allium ascalonicum, 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 Allium ascalonicum 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 Allium ascalonicum 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 Allium ascalonicum, 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 Allium ascalonicum, 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 Allium ascalonicum 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 Allium ascalonicum and the stages it passes through.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a Allium ascalonicum, 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 Allium ascalonicum, 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 Allium ascalonicum 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 Allium ascalonicum is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a Allium ascalonicum, 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 Allium ascalonicum, 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 Allium ascalonicum 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 Allium ascalonicum 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 Allium ascalonicum is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a Allium ascalonicum, 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 Allium ascalonicum, 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 Allium ascalonicum 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 Allium ascalonicum 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 Allium ascalonicum, 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 Allium ascalonicum, 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 Allium ascalonicum 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 Allium ascalonicum 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 Allium ascalonicum between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Allium ascalonicum, 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 Allium ascalonicum, 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 Allium ascalonicum 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 Allium ascalonicum, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Allium ascalonicum 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 Allium ascalonicum, 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 Allium ascalonicum, 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 Allium ascalonicum 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 Allium ascalonicum 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 Allium ascalonicum, 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 Allium ascalonicum 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 Allium ascalonicum 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 Allium ascalonicum 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 Allium ascalonicum 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 Allium ascalonicum 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 Allium ascalonicum 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 Allium ascalonicum, 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 Allium ascalonicum 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 Allium ascalonicum 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 Allium ascalonicum and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Allium ascalonicum, 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 Allium ascalonicum, 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 Allium ascalonicum 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 Allium ascalonicum is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Allium ascalonicum, 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 Allium ascalonicum, 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 Allium ascalonicum 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 } } } }