hair root

BTO:0000555 ·resolve ·HOST_ASSOCIATED ·EXACT REVIEWED

The enlarged basal part of a hair within the skin. — BTO

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 > Mammals: Human > Integumentary system > Hair > Hair roots	—

Broader habitats

hair BTO:0001501

Also called

Hair roots — GOLD

Curation

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

GROUND 2026-08-12 · claude-opus-5
Grounded to BTO:0000555 'hair root' (EXACT). Leaf label equals the BTO label exactly and no other source concept claims it. Path: Host-associated > Mammals: Human > Integumentary system > Hair > Hair roots (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.80d194e32a)

Provenance

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