International Journal of Forestry Research

Research Article

Morphological Variability of Pterocarpus erinaceus Poir. in Togo

Table 10

Mean values and coefficients of variation (CV in percentage) of the variables of P. erinaceus fruits.


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

Length of fruit (LFr, mm)	Mean ± SD CV (%)	46.47 ± 6.33c (13.64)	48.83 ± 6.92bc (14.17	58.61 ± 8.35a (14.25)	51.92 ± 7.23b (13.93)	51.41 ± 6.82b (13.27)	4.35.10⁻¹⁶
Width of fruit (WiFr, mm)	Mean ± SD CV (%)	5.95 ± 1.44ab (24.2)	6.52 ± 1.48a (22.74)	5.42 ± 1.25bc (23.11)	4.78 ± 2.17c (45.52)	5.62 ± 1.27b (22.58)	2.5.10⁻⁹
Weight of fruit (WeFr, mg)	Mean ± SD CV (%)	334 ± 100ab (29.89)	359 ± 89ab (25.39)	372 ± 88a (23.71)	305 ± 87b (28.57)	342 ± 85ab (24.99)	0.0206
Number of seeds per fruit (NbG)	Mean ± SD CV (%)	1.04 ± 0.19d (19.12)	1.16 ± 0.37c (32.36)	1.25 ± 0.44b (35.41)	1.1 ± 0.31cd (28.24)	1.38 ± 0.50a (36.66)	2.2.10⁻¹⁶

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 .