Morfologi batang dan daun sungkai (peronema canescens) pada lingkungan tumbuh yang berbeda

Abstract

Sungkai Peronema canescens is empirically well known as medicine and widely used by lokal communities at Kalimantan and Sumatra. The potential use of sungkai as medicine has been identified recently; however, plant morphology in the different location has less been done. The research described plant morphology of sungkai leaves and stem located on five sites at South Kalimantan and the relation between plant morphology and abiotik faktors. Its morphology and abiotik faktors were directly calculated in the field. Additionally, others data of environmental faktors were obtained from BMKG Banjarbaru. Dendogram analysis using MVSP 3.2 was done to understand similarities of plant morphology. Moreover, the relation between morphology and abiotik environments were tested using Minitab 16. The result showed plant morphology of leaves and stem in the five locations had high similarities except for leaf edges. Then, plant morphology had closely related to environmental faktors such air temperature, total of rainfall and soil pH.