Abstract
Summary Newly proposed macromorphological characters and methods are presented and tested by canonical variates analysis and principal components analysis. Dividing ramets into “growth sections” avoids the problem that, depending on the environment and age, reed ramets are composed of different numbers of nodes. If the objective is to examine selected features of as many reed stands as possible, new characters are useful. The length and location of the longest internode provide stronger separation between different reed stands than the use of an increased number of internodes. To monitor the morphological changes of the same reed ramets in situ during the whole vegetation period, we proposed to measure the distances between the tops of leaf sheaths. Reed ramets need not be cut and disassembled, because between-leaf sheath distances are highly correlated with the lengths of internodes, and they explain the strong separation of the different stands. Using our formula, these distances can also be calculated, which provides opportunity for collecting further information from previous morphological data or for comparing them with newly obtained data.
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