World Journal of
Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences

ASSESSMENT OF TAXONOMIC AFFINITY THROUGH CHARACTER BASED CLUSTER ANALYSIS: A NOVEL APPROACH TOWARDS TAXONOMIC DISCRIMINATION OF SOME GENERA UNDER BAMBUSOIDEAE COMPLEX

Ashiq Hussain Khanday, Sayed Salim Ahemad, Prashant Ashokrao Gawande*

ABSTRACT

Bamboo, is the fastest growing perennial, evergreen, arborescent plant and placed under the family Poaceae under this placed under the subfamily or tribe Bambusoideae. Eighteen bamboo species belonging to Six bamboo genera such as Dendrocalamus, Bambusa, Melocanna, Gigntochloa, Dinochloa and Guadua were analyzed for morphological character based matrix by using NTSYS-pc version 2.0 to generate similarity coefficient. The matrix was subjected to Unweighted Pair Group Method for Arithmetic average analysis (UPGMA). Dendrogram based on morphological cluster analysis reveals two clusters. Cluster I further subdivided in to Sub-Cluster I represented by six species of genera Bambusa and four species of genera Dendrocalamus. However, Sub-cluster-II of Cluster-I represented by Gigntochloa ablociliata. Moreover, Cluster-II also subdivided in to two sub-clusters, the sub-cluster-I represented by species under Guadua, Dendrocalamus, Bambusa and Melocanna. Sub-Cluster-II of Cluster-II represented by Dinochloa scandens ver andamanica.

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