spore

BTO:0001171 ·resolve ·HOST_ASSOCIATED ·EXACT SEEDED

A primitive usually unicellular often environmentally resistant dormant or reproductive body produced by plants and some microorganisms and capable of development into a new individual either directly or after fusion with another spore. — BTO

Machine-generated and unreviewed. Its grounding comes from the seeder's rules, not from a curator.

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 > Fungi > Spore 3 GOLD ecosystem node ids share this path; first shown. See data/raw/gold_ecosystem_paths.tsv.	135	ORGANISM
GOLD	Host-associated > Plants > Bryophytes > Moss > Spores	—
GOLD	Host-associated > Plants > Bryophytes > Liverworts > Spores	—

Broader habitats

organism form BTO:0000284
plant form BTO:0000720
area of moss-dominated vegetation ENVO:01000890
Fungi habitatmech:GOLD.a8fc5001d1
Liverworts habitatmech:GOLD.b2bb6d6801

Also called

Spores — 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:0001171 'spore' (EXACT). 2 GOLD paths share this leaf and differ only in host clade. Merged onto BTO:0001171 deliberately: the structure is the same wherever it sits and the host lives in the taxon, as with feces and blood serum. Each path survives in source_attestations. (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.32dbe6f184)
GROUND 2026-08-12 · claude-opus-5
Grounded to BTO:0001171 'spore' (EXACT). 2 GOLD paths share this leaf and differ only in host clade. Merged onto BTO:0001171 deliberately: the structure is the same wherever it sits and the host lives in the taxon, as with feces and blood serum. Each path survives in source_attestations. (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.571bcd5aa0)

Provenance

Generated by scripts/seed_from_sources.py from the committed inventories in data/raw/. View the record.