Table 3. Mean, standard deviation, minimum (min) and maximum (max) of size parameters measured on each Phoenix species and groups derived from Tukey’s test.

	Number	Sample	Length (cm)				Width (cm)				Thickness (cm)				Surface (cm²)
	of seeds	number	mean ± sd	min	max	Tukey's group(s)	mean ± sd	min	max	Tukey's group(s)	mean ± sd	min	max	Tukey's group(s)	mean ± sd	min	max	Tukey's group(s)
P. acaulis	62	4	1.01 ± 0.12	0.79	1.33	gh	0.58 ± 0.06	0.45	0.76	g	0.51 ± 0.07	0.35	0.68	g	0.47 ± 0.11	0.32	0.75	gh
P. andamanensis	13	1	1.41 ± 0.06	1.29	1.5	de	0.75 ± 0.03	0.69	0.81	d	0.66 ± 0.03	0.63	0.75	e	0.81 ± 0.06	0.68	0.91	e
P. caespitosa	60	3	1.18 ± 0.11	0.93	1.36	f	0.87 ± 0.07	0.71	1.01	c	0.77 ± 0.06	0.64	0.88	c	0.84 ± 0.17	0.52	1.18	de
P. canariensis	100	5	1.51 ± 0.16	1.25	1.78	c	0.95 ± 0.10	0.74	1.15	a	0.89 ± 0.09	0.69	1.09	a	1.17 ± 0.23	0.72	1.64	c
P. dactylifera	591	30	2.08 ± 0.43	1.12	3.16	a	0.85 ± 0.10	0.61	1.14	c	0.77 ± 0.10	0.49	1.06	c	1.34 ± 0.33	0.627	2.51	a
P. loureiroi	120	6	1.05 ± 0.13	0.8	1.32	g	0.61 ± 0.05	0.52	0.7	f	0.55 ± 0.04	0.46	0.64	f	0.51 ± 0.09	0.37	0.71	g
P. paludosa	70	4	0.99 ± 0.08	0.78	1.23	hi	0.69 ± 0.06	0.58	0.78	e	0.54 ± 0.05	0.45	0.64	f	0.52 ± 0.09	0.35	0.75	g
P. pusilla	100	5	0.95 ± 0.12	0.7	1.23	i	0.58 ± 0.08	0.44	0.71	g	0.52 ± 0.08	0.39	0.64	g	0.45 ± 0.11	0.25	0.68	h
P. reclinata	120	6	1.16 ± 0.31	0.73	1.9	f	0.70 ± 0.12	0.52	1.02	e	0.63 ± 0.12	0.44	0.94	e	0.68 ± 0.31	0.27	1.57	f
P. roebelenii	20	1	0.80 ± 0.03	0.75	0.86	j	0.43 ± 0.02	0.39	0.47	h	0.35 ± 0.02	0.32	0.37	h	0.27 ± 0.02	0.23	0.31	i
P. rupicola	69	4	1.44 ± 0.15	1.2	1.68	d	0.74 ± 0.05	0.67	0.88	d	0.71 ± 0.06	0.62	0.88	d	0.88 ± 0.15	0.66	1.16	d
P. sylvestris	200	10	1.65 ± 0.20	1.11	2.02	b	0.92 ± 0.10	0.73	1.13	b	0.83 ± 0.08	0.65	1.03	b	1.24 ± 0.22	0.67	1.71	b
P. theophrasti	100	5	1.33 ± 0.18	0.97	1.62	e	0.76 ± 0.08	0.59	0.93	d	0.72 ± 0.07	0.57	0.85	d	0.81 ± 0.18	0.5	1.17	e