Morphological Variability of Pterocarpus erinaceus Poir. in Togo

Table 12

Mean values and coefficients of variation (CV in percentage) of P. erinaceus seeds’ variables.

Seeds’ characteristics		Oti-Kéran (OK)	Fazao-Malfakassa (FM)	Abdoulaye (AB)	Togodo (TO)	Plateau Akposso (AK)	value
Lenght of seed (LS, mm)	Mean ± SD CV (%)	9.29 ± 1.22b (13.13)	9.68 ± 1.06a (10.95)	9.14 ± 1.22b (13.34)	9.31 ± 1.01b (10.84)	8.84 ± 1.26c (14.25)	9.85.10^−14
Width of seed (WiS, mm)	Mean ± SD CV (%)	2.33 ± 0.57ab (24.26)	2.27 ± 0.62bc (40.66)	2.43 ± 0.60a (24.69)	2.39 ± 0.51ab (21.33)	2.34 ± 0.74ab (31.62)	0.039
Weight of seed (WeS, mg)	Mean ± SD CV (%)	73.26 ± 18.72a (24.65)	71.63 ± 24.08ab (33.8)	66.13 ± 22.15c (33.33)	67.99 ± 13.9bc (19.4)	65.84 ± 19.42c (29.23)	9.52.10^−6

SD: standard deviation; test of Tukey: the values followed by the same letter on one line are not significantly different at the threshold of alpha = 0.05. Codes of significance: , , and .