Table 1.

Fruit and seed traits and fleshy pulp nutritional contents of Miconia species.

	Mean	Median	s.e.	Range	n
Morphological
Fruit diameter (cm)	0.57	0.54	0.01	0.2–1.76	217
Fruit weight (mg)	166.15	100	35.36	10–1300	39
Seed size (cm)	0.23	0.1	0.02	0.002–1.3	125
Seed weight (mg)	4.89	0.093	2.37	0.002–150	74
Seeds per fruit	106.92	33.4	19.01	1.44–1005.2	87
Fruit crop size	11 817.09	1358	5099.24	74.3–168 696	41
Fleshy pulp chemical composition (%)
Water	80.93	79.86	2.01	70.05–93.7	12
Lipids	1.43	0.65	0.46	0.04–5.98	14
Protein	2.34	1.55	0.59	0.045–8	14
Total non-structural carbohydrates	13.04	8.74	2.58	0.67–59.22	28
Sugar composition
Fructose (%)	44.25	46	4.43	1–62	12
Glucose (%)	48.54	48	1.97	37–56	11
Sucrose (%)	7.25	3	4.01	1–51	12

Values for chemical composition were obtained in a centesimal composition basis (s.e. = standard error, n = sample size).