Morphology diversity of Axonopus compressus germplasm

A preliminary assessment of morphology characteristics of 26 capetgrass (Axonopus compressus) accessions were conducted in the present study. The results showed these carpetgrass accessions performed a very rich diversity of morphology characteristic. There were significant positive correlations or negative correlations between these different indicators (P0.05). The variant coefficient of fertile tillers was 71.11% which was the highest in all morphology characteristics. The variant coefficient of seed length was 4.41% which was the lowest with the average of 19.29%. There was very significant difference (P0.01) between these indices. These tested 26 carpetgrass accessions were divided into three groups base on these morphology indices, which were high density of inflorescence, low density of inflorescence and intermediate type, respectively.