International Journal of Forestry Research

Research Article

Morphological Variability of Pterocarpus erinaceus Poir. in Togo

Table 7

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


Leaf characteristics		Oti-Keran (OK)	Fazao-Malfakassa (FM)	Abdoulaye (AB)	Togodo (TO)	Plateau Akposso (AK)	value

Leaf height (LH, cm)	Mean ± SD CV (%)	25.56 ± 5.82b (22.78)	30.25 ± 7.52a (24.88)	27.45 ± 5.05ab (18.4)	29.44 ± 6.51ab (22.14)	28.16 ± 6.55ab (23.29)	0.01864
Leaf width (LW, cm)	Mean ± SD CV (%)	10.70 ± 2.06c (26.44)	12.30 ± 2.85bc (29.22)	12.18 ± 2.18bc (24.12)	15.41 ± 3.35a (27.5)	13.59 ± 2.98ab (27.5)	4.39.10⁻⁸
Length of petiole (LPe, cm)	Mean ± SD CV (%)	4.79 ± 1.13a (23.74)	5.08 ± 1.24a (24.42)	4.00 ± 0.93b (23.28)	4.66 ± 0.97a (20.95)	4.43 ± 1.22ab (27.61)	0.00029
Number of leaflets (nfo)	Mean ± SD CV (%)	9.30 ± 1.85b (19.97)	10.77 ± 1.95a (18.15)	10.2 ± 1.66ab (16.26)	10.29 ± 1.7ab (16.52)	10.23 ± 1.77ab (17.37)	0.0028

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 .