Research Article

Morphological Variability of Pterocarpus erinaceus Poir. in Togo

Table 5

Mean values and coefficients of variation (CV in percentage) of dendrometric variables.

Dendrometric characteristicsOti-Keran (OK)Fazao-Malfakassa (FM)Abdoulaye (AB)Togodo (TO)Plateau Akposso (AK) value

Merchantable height (MH, m)Mean ± SD CV (%)5.90 ± 1.65a (28)6.45 ± 1.14a (17.81)5.96 ± 2.2a (36.88)4.59 ± 1.51b (33.05)4.03 ± 1.23b (30.45)4.78.10−8
Total height (TH, m)Mean ± SD CV (%)13.56 ± 3.12b (23.01)19.18 ± 3.01a (15.72)13.3 ± 2.46bc (18.53)13.06 ± 2.24bc (17.16)11.35 ± 2.08c (18.39)2.2.10−16
Diameter to 1.30 m from soil (DIA, cm)Mean ± SD CV (%)34.06 ± 7.28b (21.37)42.78 ± 11.29a (26.39)38.71 ± 9.36ab (24.2)34.49 ± 6.8b (19.72)22.05 ± 4.39c (19.93)4.05.10−15

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 .