Morphological Variability of Juniperus phoenicea (Cupressaceae) from three Distant Localities on Iberian Peninsula

Zmiennosc morfologiczna Juniperus phoenicea (Cupressaceae) z trzech odleglych populacji na polywyspie iberyjskim

Warsaw

2003

S. 71-78

10 Abb., 7 Tab., 18 Lit. Ang.

Bandaufführung

10278S

149284

The aim of the present study was biometrical comparison of three Iberian populations of Juniperus phoenicea, represented by the subsp. turbinata and subsp. phoenicea. Eight features of the cones and seeds, two of the shoots and leaves were studied. The biometrical analysis of three distant populations of J. phoenicea shown great taxonomic distances among them. Two of them, representatives of J. phoenicea subsp. turbinata, are closer related each other than to the third, which represents J. phoenicea subsp. phoenicea. These results confirm the genetic differentiation of the taxons and also the biochemical and morphological division of them. Nevertheless, the distances between particular populations are so great that more resemble the distances between species than between subspecies.