Horsetails (Equisetum) are the old, pre-dinosaur plant lineage. Only several dozen species survived, but despite a long evolution the borders between these species are still unclear for researchers.
In 2005--2006, morphometric analysis was performed of more than 1,000 horsetail plants belong to most widespread Eurasian species growing in Middle Russia. For the analysis, we used 8 morphological characters and also tried to identify species.
'eq_l' contains population locations and species determinations.
'eq_s' and 'eq' are actual morphometric data, but 'eq' contains only 2 species out of 8.
eq
eq_l
eq_s
This data frame contains the following columns:
DL.R
plant height, mm
DIA.ST
maximal diameter of stem, mm
N.REB
number of ridges on a stem
N.ZUB
number of teeth (reduced leaves)
DL.OSN.Z
length of tooth base
DL.TR.V
length of sheath
DL.BAZ
length of basal segment of branch
DL.PER
length of first (after the basal) segment of branch
SPECIES
preliminary species determination
N.POP
population number
WHERE
population location (region)