Seed Morphometry of Native Indonesian Orchids in the Genus Dendrobium

Table 1

Shape and measurement data of seeds (genus Dendrobium Sw).

No	Species	Shape	SL (mm)	SW (mm)	SL/SW (mm)	Volume (mm^3 x 10^−3)
1	D. antennatum	Fusiform	0.910 ± 0.0071^c	0.175 ± 0.0019^b	5.201 ± 0.0740^a	7.286 ± 0.1569^e
2	D. lineale	Fusiform	0.480 ± 0.0061^a	0.081 ± 0.0003^a	5.894 ± 0.0782^a	0.001 ± 0.0000^a
3	D. tonson	Fusiform	0.564 ± 0.0034^b	0.085 ± 0.0032^a	6.624 ± 0.2465^b	1.074 ± 0.0816^d
4	D. odoratum	Fusiform	0.551 ± 0.0037^b	0.073 ± 0.0028^a	7.513 ± 0.2696^b	0.779 ± 0.0614^c
5	D. discolor	Fusiform	0.405 ± 0.0044^a	0.078 ± 0.0030^a	5.220 ± 0.1965^a	0.642 ± 0.0509^c
6	D. mirbelianum	Fusiform	0.439 ± 0.0086^a	0.082 ± 0.0045^a	5.367 ± 0.2971^a	0.774 ± 0.0864^c
7	D. purpureum	Fusiform	0.353 ± 0.0019^a	0.067 ± 0.0018^a	5.307 ± 0.1573^a	0.410 ± 0.0222^b
8	D. nindii	Fusiform	0.486 ± 0.0019^a	0.075 ± 0.0015^a	6.462 ± 0.1356^b	0.719 ± 0.0269^c
9	D. affine	Fusiform	0.518 ± 0.0046^b	0.085 ± 0.0015^a	6.110 ± 0.0805^b	0.975 ± 0.0411^d
10	D. leporinum	Filiform	1.868 ± 0.0128^d	0.181 ± 0.0078^b	10.315 ± 0.4152^c	0.016 ± 0.0014^a

Values are expressed as ± standard deviation; SL: seed length; SW: seed width. The data followed by the same letter in a Duncan grouping are not significantly different (α = 0.05).