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These characters provide a preliminary match against unrelated aromatic trees. [Naturalis description](https://useful-plants.linnaeus.naturalis.nl/linnaeus_ng/app/views/species/taxon.php?epi=202&id=127726)", "Inspect a mature fruit for a fleshy covering opening into two valves around one seed with a red, netlike aril; this distinguishes the nutmeg fruit organisation from superficially similar fleshy fruits, but is not sufficient to exclude other Myristica species. [Naturalis description](https://useful-plants.linnaeus.naturalis.nl/linnaeus_ng/app/views/species/taxon.php?epi=202&id=127726)", "Identify the anatomical part: the nutmeg kernel belongs to the seed, while mace is the surrounding aril; a detached spice sample is not a whole-tree observation. [NParks species account](https://www.nparks.gov.sg/FloraFaunaWeb/Flora/3/0/3037)", "For confusion with another Myristica species, require a documented botanical-key determination or authenticated reference comparison using measured leaves, flowers and fruits; retain a provisional identification when diagnostic organs are unavailable." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Identification confidence", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "unassessed | provisional | supported | disputed, with determination method and evidence", "why_it_matters": "A common name or aromatic seed does not establish Myristica fragrans identity." }, { "name": "Biological material represented", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "whole tree | seedling | scion | rootstock | flower | fruit | seed | aril | pericarp", "why_it_matters": "Prevents applying tree condition, germination potential or product identity to the wrong material." }, { "name": "Propagation lineage", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "seed parent, pollen parent if known, donor plant, scion and rootstock references; unknown allowed", "why_it_matters": "Connects identity and observed performance to the actual source material." }, { "name": "Observed flowering expression", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "not observed | staminate only observed | pistillate only observed | both observed | indeterminate, with dates and sampled branches", "why_it_matters": "Supports reproductive planning without treating a nonflowering tree as male or female." }, { "name": "Flowering overlap", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "dated overlap with identified pollen-source trees; absent | observed | unknown", "why_it_matters": "Helps distinguish missing reproductive opportunity from other explanations for poor fruit set." }, { "name": "Fruit set", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "retained fruits per monitored pistillate flower cohort, with observation interval", "why_it_matters": "Makes reproductive success and subsequent fruit loss distinguishable." }, { "name": "Fruit maturity", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "developing | apparently mature and closed | naturally split | fallen | damaged | uncertain", "why_it_matters": "Supports harvest timing while distinguishing natural opening from injury." }, { "name": "Root-zone water condition", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "volumetric water content (%) and observed saturation duration (hours), with depth and method", "why_it_matters": "Provides evidence for judging whether watering or drainage intervention is appropriate." }, { "name": "Canopy and organ damage", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "affected leaves, shoots or fruits (%) by symptom and observation date", "why_it_matters": "Supports tracking deterioration without converting a symptom into an unsupported diagnosis." }, { "name": "Propagation seed condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "collection date, handling history, intactness and viability status: untested | germinated | failed test | indeterminate", "why_it_matters": "Keeps planting potential separate from appearance or suitability as spice material." } ], "affordances": [ "Document diagnostic organs and obtain a botanical determination when species identity remains uncertain", "Monitor flowering expression and identify potential pollen-source trees with overlapping flowering", "Adjust watering, drainage or exposure using recorded plant response and locally supported cultivation guidance", "Select traceable seed or vegetative material for a documented propagation attempt", "Harvest assessed fruit and preserve the relationship between parent tree, seed, aril and pericarp", "Investigate damaged organs and defer propagation or harvest decisions when condition is unresolved" ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "nutmeg-identity", "name": "Nutmeg identity", "description": "Establish whether the observed organism or material belongs to Myristica fragrans.", "rationale": "Nutmeg names, aromatic tissues and shared Myristica morphology can produce false identification.", "layers": [ { "id": "taxon-determination", "name": "Taxon determination", "description": "Connect the registry concept to a defensible identification.", "findings": [ { "id": "supported-species-assignment", "name": "Supported species assignment", "description": "Record the determination, identifier and evidence; Kew accepts Myristica fragrans Houtt. as a species. [Kew taxon account](https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/586076-1)", "questions": [ { "text": "Which observed characters and botanical reference support assigning this individual to Myristica fragrans?", "kind": "definition", "id": "supported-species-assignment-q01" }, { "text": "Who made the determination, when, and which voucher or photographs permit its review?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "supported-species-assignment-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "organ-and-lookalike-checks", "name": "Organ and lookalike checks", "description": "Separate anatomical identity from evidence sufficient for species identification.", "findings": [ { "id": "diagnostic-material-sufficiency", "name": "Diagnostic material sufficiency", "description": "Record available leaves, flowers, fruits and seeds, and the unresolved alternatives they cannot exclude.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is the observation of a whole plant, fruit, seed, aril or processed material, and can it be traced to the same individual?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "diagnostic-material-sufficiency-q01" }, { "text": "Which additional organ measurements or authenticated comparisons would distinguish the remaining Myristica alternatives?", "kind": "action", "id": "diagnostic-material-sufficiency-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "establishment-and-lineage", "name": "Establishment and lineage", "description": "Track how a nutmeg individual was established and which material can reproduce it.", "rationale": "Seed origin and vegetative donor identity support different conclusions about inherited traits and future performance.", "layers": [ { "id": "planting-material-origin", "name": "Planting material origin", "description": "Retain origin and propagation relationships.", "findings": [ { "id": "individual-propagation-history", "name": "Individual propagation history", "description": "Record whether the individual originated from seed, cutting or grafting, methods listed for this species by NParks. [NParks propagation account](https://www.nparks.gov.sg/FloraFaunaWeb/Flora/3/0/3037)", "questions": [ { "text": "Was this tree seed-grown, rooted from a cutting or grafted, and what records support that history?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "individual-propagation-history-q01" }, { "text": "For a grafted tree, which observations belong to the scion and which to the rootstock or its shoots?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "individual-propagation-history-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "propagation-readiness", "name": "Propagation readiness", "description": "Assess whether selected biological material is suitable for a propagation attempt.", "findings": [ { "id": "viable-traceable-propagules", "name": "Viable traceable propagules", "description": "Require handling history and observed viability or establishment evidence rather than assuming every harvested seed is planting material.", "questions": [ { "text": "When was this seed or vegetative material collected, and what drying, storage or treatment followed?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "viable-traceable-propagules-q01" }, { "text": "What germination, rooting or graft-establishment observations justify planting, retaining or rejecting this material?", "kind": "action", "id": "viable-traceable-propagules-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "flowering-and-fruit-set", "name": "Flowering and fruit set", "description": "Assess reproductive expression and the transition from flowers to retained fruit.", "rationale": "Failure to bear fruit cannot be interpreted without flowering observations and potential pollen-source relationships.", "layers": [ { "id": "observed-flower-sex", "name": "Observed flower sex", "description": "Document flower anatomy and its distribution across the individual.", "findings": [ { "id": "dated-sex-expression", "name": "Dated sex expression", "description": "Use observed flowers to characterise the individual; the species is described as dioecious, but an unobserved individual requires an unknown state. [NParks floral account](https://www.nparks.gov.sg/FloraFaunaWeb/Flora/3/0/3037)", "questions": [ { "text": "Which examined flowers were staminate or pistillate, on which branches and dates?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "dated-sex-expression-q01" }, { "text": "Is the assigned reproductive role based on direct flowering observations or only on a supplier claim or absence of fruit?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "dated-sex-expression-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "pollination-and-retention", "name": "Pollination and retention", "description": "Connect flowering opportunities to observed fruit development.", "findings": [ { "id": "fruit-set-explanation", "name": "Fruit-set explanation", "description": "Keep pollen availability, flower visitation, initial fruit set and later abortion distinct when investigating reproductive failure.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which potential pollen-source trees flowered concurrently, and what visitation or pollen-transfer evidence was observed?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "fruit-set-explanation-q01" }, { "text": "At what stage did monitored flowers or fruits fail, and what evidence supports any proposed intervention?", "kind": "action", "id": "fruit-set-explanation-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "growing-condition-and-injury", "name": "Growing condition and injury", "description": "Judge whether the individual's growing conditions and observed symptoms support cultivation intervention.", "rationale": "A living nutmeg tree's suitability for propagation or fruit production depends on its local condition, not merely its species identity.", "layers": [ { "id": "root-zone-and-exposure", "name": "Root zone and exposure", "description": "Relate measured conditions to establishment and growth.", "findings": [ { "id": "site-fit-evidence", "name": "Site-fit evidence", "description": "Record drainage, soil reaction and exposure; NParks describes a preference for well-drained acidic loamy soil, without establishing universal intervention thresholds. [NParks cultivation account](https://www.nparks.gov.sg/FloraFaunaWeb/Flora/3/0/3037)", "questions": [ { "text": "What root-zone moisture, drainage, pH and exposure measurements accompany the current growth condition?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "site-fit-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Which locally supported evidence justifies changing watering, drainage or shade for this life stage?", "kind": "action", "id": "site-fit-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "symptoms-and-causal-evidence", "name": "Symptoms and causal evidence", "description": "Separate recorded injury from explanations requiring confirmation.", "findings": [ { "id": "organ-specific-decline", "name": "Organ-specific decline", "description": "Locate and track damage to roots, trunk, canopy, flowers or fruit before assigning a cause or treatment.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which organs show damage, how extensive is it, and how has it changed between observations?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "organ-specific-decline-q01" }, { "text": "What inspection or diagnostic result would distinguish environmental injury from a pest or pathogen before intervention?", "kind": "action", "id": "organ-specific-decline-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "fruit-harvest-and-material-fate", "name": "Fruit harvest and material fate", "description": "Connect fruit condition to harvest decisions and the subsequent identity of separated material.", "rationale": "One fruit supplies anatomically distinct materials whose maturity, condition and intended destinations must remain distinguishable.", "layers": [ { "id": "maturity-and-collection", "name": "Maturity and collection", "description": "Assess harvest readiness from fruit observations and intended use.", "findings": [ { "id": "interpretable-harvest-state", "name": "Interpretable harvest state", "description": "Record natural opening, attachment or fall, damage and collection timing without treating any single observation as a complete quality assessment.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is the fruit developing, mature and closed, naturally split, fallen or mechanically damaged?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "interpretable-harvest-state-q01" }, { "text": "Do its condition and intended destination support collection now, continued observation or rejection?", "kind": "action", "id": "interpretable-harvest-state-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "seed-aril-and-pericarp-handoff", "name": "Seed, aril and pericarp handoff", "description": "Preserve anatomical and parent-tree identity as harvested fruit is separated.", "findings": [ { "id": "traceable-material-destination", "name": "Traceable material destination", "description": "Record each separated part and its intended destination, then link processing, food-safety or exposure decisions to the relevant neighbouring model.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which seed, aril and pericarp materials came from this tree and collection event, and were materials subsequently mixed?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "traceable-material-destination-q01" }, { "text": "Is the material intended for propagation, a botanical specimen or processing, and which downstream model owns its next assessment?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "traceable-material-destination-q02" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Which validated diagnostic key and organ measurements best distinguish Myristica fragrans from the Myristica species encountered in the target region, especially when plants are sterile?", "How variable is flowering sex expression across cultivars and seasons, and what observation history is sufficient to assign a dependable reproductive role?", "Which local pollinators, flowering-overlap patterns and pollen-source arrangements explain reliable fruit set?", "What seed-handling limits and propagation protocols preserve establishment potential for the relevant provenance and local conditions?", "Which locally validated thresholds for water stress, disease severity and fruit maturity should trigger intervention or harvest?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 10, "findings": 10, "questions": 20 } }, "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. Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched. This entry carries no facets of its own, so they were inferred from its domain - a guess about a whole domain applied to one thing.", "facetsInferred": true, "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. 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A sighting is settled by characters, a photograph and a place, not by a name alone." ], "relatedModels": [], "standing": "Described in 63 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 Myristica fragrans from another, and a Myristica fragrans 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 Myristica fragrans, 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 Myristica fragrans, 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 Myristica fragrans 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 Myristica fragrans, 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 Myristica fragrans, 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 Myristica fragrans 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 Myristica fragrans 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 Myristica fragrans, 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 Myristica fragrans, 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 Myristica fragrans 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 Myristica fragrans from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Myristica fragrans, 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 Myristica fragrans, 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 Myristica fragrans 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 Myristica fragrans 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 Myristica fragrans, 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 Myristica fragrans, 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 Myristica fragrans is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": 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"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 Myristica fragrans is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a Myristica fragrans, 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 Myristica fragrans, 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 Myristica fragrans 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 Myristica fragrans 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 Myristica fragrans is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a Myristica fragrans, 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 Myristica fragrans, 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 Myristica fragrans 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 Myristica fragrans 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 Myristica fragrans, 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 Myristica fragrans, 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 Myristica fragrans 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 Myristica fragrans passes through and the events that move it between them.", 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] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a Myristica fragrans 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 Myristica fragrans, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Myristica fragrans 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 Myristica fragrans, 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 Myristica fragrans, 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 Myristica fragrans 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 Myristica fragrans 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 Myristica fragrans, 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 Myristica fragrans 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 Myristica fragrans 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 Myristica fragrans 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 Myristica fragrans 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 Myristica fragrans 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 Myristica fragrans 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 Myristica fragrans, 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 Myristica fragrans 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 Myristica fragrans 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 Myristica fragrans and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Myristica fragrans, 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 Myristica fragrans, 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 Myristica fragrans 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 Myristica fragrans is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Myristica fragrans, 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 Myristica fragrans, 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 Myristica fragrans 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 } } } }