University of Missouri, St. Louis IRL @ UMSL Theses Graduate Works 2-7-2010 Taxonomic Revision of Passiflora section Xerogona (Raf.) Killip (Passifloraceae) Tatiana Erika Boza Espinoza University of Missouri-St. Louis,
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[email protected]. UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI -ST. LOUIS Department of Biology Taxonomic Revision of Passiflora Section Xerogona (Raf.) Killip (Passifloraceae) Tatiana Erika Boza Espinoza A thesis presented to the Graduate School of the University of Missouri -St. Louis in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Science Thesis committee: Ph.D. Peter F. Stevens (Advisor) Ph.D. Peter M. Jørgensen Ph.D. John M. MacDougal Summer, 2010 Saint Louis, Missouri i LIST OF CONTENTS List of tables iv List of figures v List of plates vi Acknowledgements vii Abstract 1 Introduction 2 Objetives 4 Material and Methods 5 Morphological Data Set 5 Principal Component Analyses (PCA) 11 Results 13 Analysis 1 – All species 13 i. All characters 13 ii. Only vegetative characters 15 iii. Only floral characters 17 iv. Vegetative and floral characters 19 v. Vegetative and fruit/seed characters 21 Analysis 2 – Passiflora rubra complex – P. cervii 23 i.