Morphological and Genetic Diversities of Habenaria radiata (Orchidaceae) in the Kinki Area, Japan

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

I wrote the comments directly on the pdf file

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Author Response

Thank you very much for reviewing our manuscript. We revised the manuscript as suggested. Please find the uploaded revised file where we corrected with the Word track changes system. 

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Reviewer 2 Report

The manuscript entitled "Morphological and Genetic Diversities of Habenaria radiata (Orchidaceae) in Kinki area, Japan" by Tachibana et al. reports a study to determine the lip morphology and phylogeny of H. radiata populations from eight habitats in Kinki area, Japan. The study is interesting and provides knowledge about the methods to characterize morphological and genetic variations in natural populations. I have some minor suggestions which may be considered before publication:

Provide Table 1 as a supplementary table. Instead, provide a map showing the geographical location of sampled populations.

At the end of the Discussion section, briefly describe the limitations of the work and include perspectives and recommendations for future studies.

Author Response

Thank you very much for reviewing our manuscript. Here we show the responses to the comments.

>Provide Table 1 as a supplementary table. Instead, provide a map showing the geographical location of sampled populations.

[Response] We changed the table as 'Table S1'. Since some areas want to be confidential to avoid overexploitation, we would not like to show the map of areas - we explain this in the Materials and Methods section.

>At the end of the Discussion section, briefly describe the limitations of the work and include perspectives and recommendations for future studies

[Response] We added several sentences, according to this suggestion. Thanks you very much.