# Label only top features on Cladogram

**URL:** <https://forum.biobakery.org/t/label-only-top-features-on-cladogram/2300>\
**Category:** LEfSe\
**Created:** [June 25, 2021, 6:01pm UTC](https://forum.biobakery.org/t/label-only-top-features-on-cladogram/2300 "2021-06-25T18:01:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![RYster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@RYster](https://forum.biobakery.org/u/RYster)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2021, 6:01pm UTC](https://forum.biobakery.org/t/label-only-top-features-on-cladogram/2300/1 "2021-06-25T18:01:45Z")

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Hi all,

I have successfully run an LEfSe that has found ~400 significantly discriminative features in my data. I would like to plot this on a tree, but this creates an unreadable legend with too many overlapping colors.

I know that in order to decrease the numbers of significant features I can increase the LDA cutoff to be higher than the default of 2. But is there a way to create a plot with only the top 50 most significant labeled, but the other 350 nodes still colored (for each class) but without a label?

Thanks for the help.

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**Author:** ![mishort](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/forum.biobakery.org/mishort/32/556_2.png) [@mishort](https://forum.biobakery.org/u/mishort)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2021, 1:18am UTC](https://forum.biobakery.org/t/label-only-top-features-on-cladogram/2300/2 "2021-06-29T01:18:59Z")

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Hello,  
Unfortunately there isn’t a way to do what you’re asking in this software. I’d recommend either doing as you suggest by raising the LDA threshold, or perhaps summarizing your data up to a higher taxonomic level before running LEfSe, if showing the differently abundance larger clades is useful.  
Best,  
Meg