Morphometric study of the medicinal and endangered Zhumeria majdae

Zhumeria majdae is the medicinal, endomic and endangered plant that is distributed in the south of Iran. This plant is seen on very sharp slope of mountains at 520-1450 meters Alt. It has noticed by natives and is used for digestion painful as swelling, diarrhea, stomatchache and coolness. In this research, the sample of Zhumeria majdae were collected from 11 habitats in Hormozgan province and were measured some morphological properties of plant (A total of 31 quantitative and 19 qualitative morphological characters). Evaluation of qualitative and qualitative characteristics were performed based on terminology and by measuring, and the statistical comparison of them were done. Then the grouping of habitats were done by hierarchical clustering. Cluster analysis of habitats based on morphological parameters were determined using SPSS software and ward. To examine the relationship between habitats with morphological characters was used PCA and PC-ORDWIND software. Using Principle Components Analysis (PCA), the results illustrated that floral branch length, flower length, calyx upper lobe length, corolla length and width, corolla tube length, style length and ovary width are the main factors that changed in different habitats and calyx length and width, calyx tube length, bract length and seed color had secondary importance.