Table 1.
Mean number of pollen grains per flower, pollen viability, ovule length and width, and diameter of the corolla of F. japonica, F. sachalinensis, F.×bohemica and F. aubertii
Mean pollen per flower | Mean pollen viability (%) | Mean ovule length (mm) | Mean ovule width (mm) | Mean corolla diameter (mm) | ||
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F. japonica | F | 0·10 (0·63) | 0·00 (0·00) | 0·58 (0·16)a | 0·31 (0·06)a | 3·76 (0·17)a |
F. sachalinensis | F | 8·00 (13·73) | 0·00 (0·00) | 0·72 (0·23)a | 0·38 (0·16)a | 3·98 (0·43)ab |
F. sachalinensis | H | 7689 (541·60)ab | 79·87 (24·22)a | 0·42 (0·08)a | 0·21 (0·01)b | 4·58 (0·11)bc |
F.×bohemica | H | 3643 (2432)a | 21·34 (13·04) b | 0·46 (0·10)a | 0·23 (0·03)b | 4·44 (0·39)c |
F. aubertii | H | 8318 (2616)b | 7·43 (2·98) c | 0.53 (0·10)a | 0·24 (0·04)b | 6·30 (0·62)d |
F, Male sterile flowers; H, hermaphrodite flowers.
Standard deviations are given in brackets. The same superscript letter within a column indicates no significant difference between species. Comparisons between taxa were performed using one-way ANOVA followed by the Tukey–HSD test for mean pollen/flower (square root transformation) and mean ovule length (logarithmic transformation), and using the Kruskal–Wallis test followed by the non-parametric Mann–Whitney test for mean pollen viability, mean ovule width and mean corolla diameter.