Modular organisms such as fungi are assumed to exhibit extreme morphological plasticity, yet this assumption has rarely been tested experimentally. Their morphology emerges from local, independent responses of constituent modules, suggesting strong plastic responses to environmental conditions. While such levels of plasticity decouple morphology from ecological function, they make these organisms an ideal system for studying t...

The dataset contains leaf venation architecture and functional traits for a phylogenetically diverse set of 122 plant species (including ferns, basal angiosperms, monocots, basal eudicots, asterids, and rosids) collected from the living collections of the University of California Botanical Garden at Berkeley (37.87° N, 122.23° W; CA, USA) from February to September 2021. The sampled species originated from all continents, exce...