International Journal of Agriculture, Forestry and Plantation, Vol. 10 (Sept) ISSN 2462-1757 2 0 20 SYSTEMATIC STUDY OF SELECTED GENUS GARCINIA L. BASED ON VEGETATIVE MORPHOLOGY Azuan Bin Amron Agrobiodiversity & Environment Research Centre MARDI Headquarter, 43400, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia Email:
[email protected] Maya Izar Binti Khaidizar Agrobiodiversity & Environment Research Centre MARDI Headquarter, 43400, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia Email:
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[email protected], Mohd Saifuddin Bin Ismail Agrobiodiversity & Environment Research Centre MARDI Headquarter, 43400, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia Email:
[email protected], ABSTRACT Garcinia has been described as a Guttiferae family which also known as Clusiaceae. A few different classification methods have been elaborated for Garcinia species. These approaches however are not really practical in field identification because of inconvenience of transportation and usage of necessary scientific instruments to and from the field. The objective of this study was to carry out comprehensive systematic survey of Garcinia species using vegetative morphological characters. Variabilities among 30 accessions from 12 selected species of Garcinia vegetative were studied using standard unweighted pair group method using averages (UPGMA). Principal component analysis (PCA) was used to analysed the diversity and to identify the optimum number of morphological traits which explain a high proportion of variability. Accessions similarity analyses were performed based on 23 vegetative morphological characters. The results suggest that the sampled accessions fall into five groups. Group 1 consist of 16 accessions which are from species G.