Acta Botanica Croatica, Vol. 52 No. 1, 1993.
Original scientific paper
Individual, Intraseasonal Variation in the Number of Carpels//Fruits of Thalictrum minus L. s. 1. (Ranunculaceae)
Toni Nikolić
; Hrvatska
Abstract
The samples of flowers were gathered successively seven times during the vegetation season from nine individuals of Thalictrum minus L. s. 1. The carpels i. e. fruits were counted to ascertain the number. The average number of carpels/fruits established per flower before the fruits fell off was 5.1 — 5.6, and the absolute range was 2 — 21. The coefficient of variability during the year, was 31.5 — 46.5. The Kruskal-Wallis test showed significant difference among specimens in the number of carpels/fruits per flower. The Kolmogorov-Smirnov test showed that the samples were not normally distributed. Early flowering specimens developed a larger number of carpels then latest flowering specimens. The time of flowering was, possibly, genetically stabilized and showed geographic variability.
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Hrčak ID:
159820
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Publication date:
31.12.1993.
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