epicuticular wax

PO:0025388 ·resolve ·HOST_ASSOCIATED ·EXACT REVIEWED

A portion of cuticular wax (PO:0025386) that forms crystalloids or a smooth film on the exterior of a plant cuticle (PO:0000022). — PO

Source attestations

Each upstream vocabulary's own account of this habitat. Assertion counts are per-source units and are not comparable across sources — GOLD counts organisms, BacDive strains, PREGO taxa.

What each upstream vocabulary says about this habitat
Source	Label / path	Assertions	Unit
GOLD	Host-associated > Plants > Phyllosphere > Phylloplane/Leaf > Epicuticular wax	—

Broader habitats

leaf PO:0025034
cuticular wax PO:0025386

Also called

cera epicuticular (Spanish, exact) — PO
エピクチクラワックス (Japanese, exact) — PO

Curation

What a curator decided about this record, and why. A record built from several source concepts can carry one decision per concept.

GROUND 2026-08-14 · claude-opus-5
Grounded to PO:0025388 'epicuticular wax' (EXACT). Stale-sweep review (#12): the class sweep said no term matched, and that was true when it ran — PO was vendored later, under #10. PO:0025388 'epicuticular wax' matches the leaf exactly and the path is Plants > Phyllosphere > Phylloplane/Leaf > Epicuticular wax, so it is the same thing. Path: Host-associated > Plants > Phyllosphere > Phylloplane/Leaf > Epicuticular wax (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.284cf93966)

Provenance

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