thallus

PO:0030027 ·resolve ·HOST_ASSOCIATED ·EXACT REVIEWED

A whole plant in the gametophytic phase that has a flat growth form and no distinct organs. — 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 > Bryophytes > Liverworts > Thallus/Plant body	—
GOLD	Host-associated > Plants > Bryophytes > Hornworts > Thallus/Plant body	—

Broader habitats

whole plant PO:0000003
Hornworts habitatmech:GOLD.50a1c0375b
Liverworts habitatmech:GOLD.b2bb6d6801

Also called

Thallus/Plant body — GOLD
prothallium (broad) — PO
talo (Spanish, exact) — PO
thalli (exact, plural) — PO
葉状体 (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 2026-08-12 · claude-opus-5
Grounded to PO:0030027 'thallus' (EXACT). Slash alternative naming one thing; grounded to the head term. Pulled out of the class-level sweep, whose note wrongly claimed no term matched. Label: 'Thallus/Plant body'. Re-grounded from BTO:0001366 to PO:0030027 now that PO is vendored (#10). (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.8303f93e43)
GROUND 2026-08-12 · claude-opus-5
Grounded to PO:0030027 'thallus' (EXACT). Slash alternative naming one thing; grounded to the head term. Pulled out of the class-level sweep, whose note wrongly claimed no term matched. Label: 'Thallus/Plant body'. Re-grounded from BTO:0001366 to PO:0030027 now that PO is vendored (#10). (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.ba38e5e8ae)

Provenance

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