Morphometric characterization of three species of the genus Urtica in the North-western region of Algeria

Authors

  • Latifa Sidhoum Applied genetic in agriculture, ecology and public health laboratory, University of Tlemcen, Algeria
  • ikram Mkedder university of Tlemcen
  • Ouissem Boutoub Applied genetic in agriculture, ecology and public health laboratory, University of Tlemcen, Algeria
  • Mohammed El Amine Benhamadi Applied genetic in agriculture, ecology and public health laboratory, University of Tlemcen, Algeria
  • Hadi Youssouf Haddam Applied genetic in agriculture, ecology and public health laboratory, University of Tlemcen, Algeria
  • Semir Bechir Suheil Gaouar Applied genetic in agriculture, ecology and public health laboratory, University of Tlemcen, Algeria

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.46325/gabj.v8i1.387

Keywords:

morphological characterization, Urtica dioica, Urtica pilulifera, Urtica urens, Western Algeria

Abstract

In this work we proceeded to a morphological characterization of three species of nettle (Urtica dioica, Urtica pilulifera, Urtica urens) in 8 regions of northwestern Algeria. Nettle (Urtica) is a well-known medicinal plant of the Urticaceae family and has an interesting economic interest. This characterization is based on 26 morphological markers (7 quantitative and 19 qualitative) for 116 nettle plants and 696 nettle leaves. The data were statistically exploited by SPSS software version 25 and R software. The results allowed us to morphologically describe the three species separately; although the inferential analyzes showed us the degree of the relations between the characters as well as the most discriminating characters on the statistical level which are: surface, shape, venation of the leaf and color of the stem. The three species studied showed morphological polymorphism depending on the region. The results brought in this work will be the subject of the valuation of nettle species in Algeria.

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03/12/2024

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Sidhoum , L., Mkedder , ikram ., Boutoub, O., Benhamadi , M. E. A., Haddam, H. Y. ., & Gaouar, S. B. S. (2024). Morphometric characterization of three species of the genus Urtica in the North-western region of Algeria. Genetics & Biodiversity Journal, 8(1), 42–58. https://doi.org/10.46325/gabj.v8i1.387

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Vol. 8 No. 1 (2024): V8.N1.2024

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