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A NUMERICAL TAXONOMIC STUDY OF THE GENUS PLATANUS BASED ON MORPHOLOGICAL AND PHENOLIC CHARACTERS
Author(s) -
Hsiao JuYing
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
american journal of botany
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.218
H-Index - 151
eISSN - 1537-2197
pISSN - 0002-9122
DOI - 10.1002/j.1537-2197.1973.tb05973.x
Subject(s) - biology , taxon , genus , similarity (geometry) , numerical taxonomy , chemical similarity , botany , evolutionary biology , taxonomy (biology) , artificial intelligence , image (mathematics) , biochemistry , structural similarity , computer science
Forty‐two morphological and eighty chemical (phenolic) characters were employed on a numerical taxonomic study of the genus Platanus . Ten taxa were used for morphological study, and nine were available for chemical study. UPGA was employed for cluster analysis; correlation coefficients served as a measurement of the similarity between each OTU‐pair. Comparison was made for phenograms and graph diagrams of nine taxa based on morphological characters with those based on chemical characters. It has been found that the two agree with each other in many respects. Correlation coefficient between similarity matrices based on morphological and chemical characters is 0.573. The result generally supports the belief that taxa closely related on morphological grounds are similar biochemically. A systematic consideration of the genus has been made, based on the information available.