Morphological And Molecular Diversity Phylogeography And Ethnobotany Of Pnmus Ilricana (hook. F.) Kalkman In Ethiopia

This dissertation reports diversity, phylogeography and ethnobotany of Prunusrnafricana (Hook. f.) Kalkman in Ethiopia. P. africana is an economically important,rnbut endangered tree species of Africa. Five quantitative morphological traits werernstudied in situ on 21 natural populations of P. aji'icana over its distribution range inrnEthiopia, and the following mean values were found: total height (l9.3m), bole heightrn(7.4m), diameter at breast height (70.2cm), bark thickness (20.3ulIn), and fresh barkrnmass (I 59.6kg). Al"lOYA based ou the five traits revealed that there was significantrnvariation among populations (P < 0.001), which could be due to environmental andlorrngenetic or age structure differences. Pearson's correlation analysis revealed significantrnpositive correlations among all traits (except bole height vs. bark thickness) (P

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