Table 7 in Simonachne, a new genus for Australia segregated from Ancistrachne s. l. (Poaceae: Panicoideae: Paniceae) and a new subtribe Cleistochloinae

Table 7. Investigation of the effect of sample size using successive samples of the highest-ranking discriminating characters in terms of highest to lowest Kruskal – Wallis values generated from PATN analysis of the baseline dataset of 24 samples and 161 characters with Gower metric association measure.
Dendrogram – Appendix 4ABCDECluster assemblage Subtribe Cleistochloinae Neurachninae sensu ‘ paniculate inflorescence Clayton and group’ Renvoize (1986)Partially resolution of Cleistochloinae; Simonachne clustered with Ancistrachne Both clusters inconsistent with baseline.As above As aboveCleistochloinae segregated but genera relationships incongruent with baseline Resolved Relationships of genera inconsistent with baselineBroadly similar to above. Simonachne clustered with Cleistochloa, incongruent As above with baseline. Dimophochloa spp. clustered with Calyptochloa in agreement with baselineRelationships of taxa within Cleistochloinae agree with baseline with As above Consistent with baseline with Entolasia Simonachne present as distinct cluster clustered with Ancistrachne.Number of discriminating characters10 – 203040 – 607080 – 161