Phenotypic Diversity of Doum Palm (Hyphaene compressa), a Semi‐Domesticated Palm in the Arid and Semi‐Arid Regions of Kenya

Table 8

Variability of the principal component analysis of quantitative traits of doum palm in Kenya.

Trait	PC 1	PC 2	PC 3	PC 4	PC 5	PC 6	PC 7
H	0.69	0.33	0.21	0.23	−0.43	−0.36	0.01
LL	0.55	0.52	0.33	−0.49	0.26	−0.10	−0.04
LB	0.42	0.53	−0.60	0.26	0.32	−0.08	0.03
PL	−0.46	0.60	0.46	0.33	0.06	0.32	0.02
FL	0.91	−0.14	0.02	−0.07	−0.06	0.28	0.25
FB	0.54	−0.52	0.39	0.32	0.41	−0.15	−0.02
FWGT	0.89	−0.06	−0.10	0.05	−0.13	0.34	−0.23
Proportion of variance
	0.44	0.19	0.13	0.08	0.08	0.07	0.02
Cumulative variance
	0.44	0.63	0.75	0.84	0.92	0.98	1.00

PC: principal components, H: height, LL: leaf length, LB: leaf breadth, PL: petiole length, FL: fruit length, FB: fruit breadth, and FWGT: fruit weight.