Data from: Morphological evaluation of species boundaries and hybridization in the Andean genus Andinocleome (Cleomaceae)
Data files
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Abstract
Andinocleome is a small genus of six species in Cleomaceae found in the Andes Mountains with documented hybridization and complicated morphology. This dataset represents the most comprehensive morphological survey of the genus to date and includes 218 hebrarium vouchers from across all six species. Morphometric data from 30 geographic, quantitative, and qualitative characters were compiled from measurements taken with calipers from these herbarium vouchers or information from specimen label data. These data were used to evaluate species boundaries, write a key to the genus, and identify hybrid individuals.
Dataset DOI: 10.5061/dryad.9s4mw6mtm
Description of the data and file structure
Morphometric dataset of 218 herbarium vouchers from across all 6 Andinocleome species found in the file Saunders_et_al.-SysBot2025-Table_DRYAD_redacted.csv. Table 1 contains specimen information and raw (showing all missing data) morphological data for all vouchers included in the morphometric analyses and location data. Missing data were features that were not present or measurable on a herbarium voucher, and these are represented by "na." See Table 2 for input file for analyses. Missing data in Table 2 are shown as blanks (instead of "na") for correct input into missMDA. Table 2 contains the primary input file for missMDA and FAMD analyses with qualitative features manually imputed with the mode for each species for each qualitative character. Input for the ANOVA was this data set but with all qualitative features removed. All specimens with publicly available coordinate data were included in the map dataset. A small number of records have redacted coordinates to mitigate conservation concerns with rare or unique populations.
Files and variables
File: Saunders_et_al.-SysBot2025-Table_DRYAD_redacted.csv
Description: Table 1: raw dataset and specimen details. Table 2: input for FAMD analyses with missing qualitative values imputed with mode for each species.
Variables
- Morphological characters include:
- georeferenced decimal latitude
- georeferenced decimal longitude
- maximum reported height of the plant (m)
- stem pubescence (glandular, eglandular, or glabrous)
- average length of middle leaflet (mm)
- average width of middle leaflet (mm)
- leaf margin pubescence (glandular, eglandular, or glabrous)
- leaf pubescence: lower (abaxial)
- leaf pubescence: upper (adaxial)
- average number of flowers on raceme
- average raceme length (mm)
- average raceme width (mm)
- reported flower color (standardized into one of five categories: green, white/yellow, green+yellow/white, red/purple/blue/maroon/pink, yellow/white+red/purple/blue/maroon/pink)
- petals pubescence presence (hairs present = hairy, no hairs present = glabrous, or barely any hairs = barely)
- petal pubescence type (glandular, eglandular or glabrous)
- average length of petals (mm)
- average length of sepals (mm)
- average width of sepals (mm)
- length of sepals divided by width of sepals (mm)
- length of sepal fusion (if fused give average length, free < 1 mm)
- percent of sepal length that is fused (length of fused portion/total sepal length x 100)
- petal length/sepal length (mm)
- sepals pubescence (glandular, eglandular, or glabrous)
- average fruit length (mm)
- average fruit width (mm)
- fruit length/fruit width (mm)
- fruit pubescence (if mature not present, then immature were also used to determine, glandular, eglandular, or glabrous)
- average nectar disk length (mm)
- average nectar disk width (mm)
- average gynophore of mature fruit (mm)