POC Conf. Call 5-28-13

POC meeting, Webex Conference Call; Date: Tuesday May 28th, 2013 10am PST/1pm EST

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fused collective tepal structure

An issue has been raised about using the term fused collective tepal structure from the Musa vocabulary:

From Chelsea Specht:" ... in Zingiberales there are sepals and petals, not tepals. and its a free petal, not a free tepal. and you can use the same terminology for the 'fused collective tepal structure' -- and technically, developmentally, its not fused: it just never separates. if we're talking about developmental genetics, that sort of thing matters."

See photo: Musa ornata

Originally added as part of this set: Musa Plant Structure terms in response to their request for a term "compound tepal"

• fused collective tepal structure (PO:0025138): A collective tepal structure that has as parts at least two fused tepals.
  • Comment: This is a phenotype that is a cross-product of PO:0025021 (collective tepal structure) and PATO:0000642 (fused with). In Musa, there are there are 5 fused tepals which form 3 major lobes and 2 minor lobes. This is not actually a cross-product.

We will keep this term, but modify and revise it. There are numerous plants with fused tepals, but it does not actually apply in the Musa.

Proposed new term name and def'n: fused perianth (PO:new): A collective phyllome structure composed of two or more fused petals and/or sepals or two or more fused tepals.

comment: The perianth maybe composed of more than one type of perianth structure, ie: petals and sepals or tepals.

• free tepal (PO:0025136): A tepal that is separate from all other tepals.

All tepals are free, unless they are fused. Should get rid of this term. Merge into an existing term- into tepal and redirect the users to use free petal. Or maybe we should leave it for now to parallel the new 'free petal' term. With a comment to redirect users.

free tepal on Crop Ontology

* This is actually a free petal, not a tepal. It is actually not fused to the rest of the fused perianth. So this is actually just a petal, so we may not need to specify that it is free. But we decided that it warranted making a specific term to describe it, as the flower

Based on the revised def'n

Proposed new term and def'n: free petal (new PO:0025569): A petal (PO:0009032) that is part of a collective phyllome structure (PO:0025023) where some of the petals are fused.

Diagram of banana flower

The term "compound tepal" and "free tepal" are widely used in the literature and floras: e.g. http://www.fruitipedia.com/leaf_banana%20Musa%20balbisiana.htm

http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty/carr/mus.htm

http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=240001486

http://ejournal.sinica.edu.tw/bbas/content/2002/1/bot431-09.html

In Magnolia, the tepals are arranged in a spiral, rather than in whorls, so the petals and sepals are indistinguishable. In the monocots there are 2 whorls of three petals or sepals. In Alliaceae or Yucca, they are obviously different. Could also talk about the inner whorl tepal and an outer whorl tepal. In monocots you always have the whorls, so we should not use tepals. We agreed that we do not want to use "compound'.

Suggestion to add 'perianth phyllome' to classify the petals, sepals and tepals. But it was decided that would be redundant.

tepal, petal and sepal

Need to also revise the definition of petals and sepals, open trackers

Existing def'ns and revised ones:

• perianth (PO:0009058): A collective phyllome structure composed of two or more petals, sepals, or tepals. additional tracker
  • A collective phyllome structure (PO:0025023) composed of two or more petals (PO:0009032) and/or sepals (PO:0009031), or tepals (PO:0009033).

• petal (PO:0009032): A member of the corolla, the inner whorl of non-fertile parts surrounding the fertile organs of a flower, usually soft and colored conspicuously. [source: APweb:Glossary]
  • A phyllome (PO:0006001) that is usually soft and conspicuously colored, and is part of the corolla (PO:0009059).

• sepal (PO:0009031): A member of the (usually green) outer whorl of non-fertile parts surrounding the fertile organs of a flower. [source: APweb:Glossary]

Only occurs in dicots?

• tepal (PO:0009033): A phyllome that is part of a perianth in which all parts are similar in appearance and are neither petals nor sepals. [source: POC:curators]

* corolla (PO:0009059): A collective phyllome structure (PO:0025023) composed of two or more petals (PO:0009032), which comprises the inner whorl of non-fertile organs and surrounds the androecium (PO:0009061) and/or gynoecium (PO:0009062).

Comment: Only occurs in dicots?

Suggested revised def'n: tepal (PO:0009033): A phyllome (PO:0006001) that is part of a perianth (PO:0009058) in which all parts are similar in appearance and it is not possible to distinguish between the petals (PO:0009032) or sepals (PO:0009031).

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