HabitatMech

sporophyte

BTO:0000735 ·resolve ·HOST_ASSOCIATED ·EXACT REVIEWED

The individual or generation of a plant exhibiting alternation of generations that bears asexual spores. — 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 > Plants > Bryophytes > Moss > Sporophytes	—
GOLD	Host-associated > Plants > Bryophytes > Liverworts > Sporophytes	—
GOLD	Host-associated > Plants > Bryophytes > Hornworts > Sporophytes	—

Broader habitats

• plant form BTO:0000720
• area of moss-dominated vegetation ENVO:01000890
• Hornworts habitatmech:GOLD.50a1c0375b
• Liverworts habitatmech:GOLD.b2bb6d6801

Also called

• Sporophytes — GOLD

Curation

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

1. GROUND 2026-08-12 · claude-opus-5

   Grounded to BTO:0000735 'sporophyte' (EXACT). 3 GOLD paths share this leaf and differ only in host clade. Merged onto BTO:0000735 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.3cdd6b2003)

2. GROUND 2026-08-12 · claude-opus-5

   Grounded to BTO:0000735 'sporophyte' (EXACT). 3 GOLD paths share this leaf and differ only in host clade. Merged onto BTO:0000735 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.497a0ddb35)

3. GROUND 2026-08-12 · claude-opus-5

   Grounded to BTO:0000735 'sporophyte' (EXACT). 3 GOLD paths share this leaf and differ only in host clade. Merged onto BTO:0000735 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.83ac3e7358)

Provenance

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