Table 4 Explicitly listing synonyms as part of trait value definitions ensured alternative terminology can be consistently mapped to the term used in the APD, as illustrated here for seed surface texture, https://w3id.org/APD/traits/trait_0012620.

bumpy

colliculate, verrucate, papillate, tuberculate, undulate

netted

reticulate, honey-combed

papery

chartaceous

pitted

foveolate, foveate, dimpled, lacunose, punctate

ribbed

carinate, costate, fluted, lineate, lineolate, ridged, scalariform, striate, strigose

rough

scabrous

scaly

scurfy, squarrose

smooth

glabrous

spiny

echinulate

wrinkled

rugose, rugulose, bullate