Studi Morfometrik Hornstedtia leonurus (J.Koenig) Retz. (Zingiberaceae) dan Kerabat Dekatnya dalam Tribe Alpiniae di Sumatera Barat
Abstract: Hornstedtia leonurus
is one species of the Hornstedtia’s genera in Alpiniae Tribe (Zingiberaceae).
It has unambiguous expressed some aberrations of morphological characters inwhat
Hornstedtia should have. On the contrary, it has with it self some characters
from other genera within the tribe of Alpiniae, such as Etlingera and Amomum.
The research aimed to find some distorsion on morphological characters of the
H. leonurus with its close selected sisters in Alpiniae Tribe (Etlingera
megalocheilos and Amomum cardamomum) and determined their were characters
relationship by a morphometric study. The materials collected from West Sumatra
province (50 Kota, Padang and Sijunjung regency) on September until December
2015. Morphometric analysis used PAST version 2.17c and SPSS computer programs.
Morphologically, H. leonurus closely related with E. megalocheilos rather than
its sister in Hornstedtia genera (H. schypifera) and A. cardamomum.
Penulis: Titi Lestari,
Nurainas dan Syamsuardi
Kode Jurnal: jpbiologidd150848
