The germoplasm evaluated is composed by 55 accessions of P. edulis, P. alata, P. coccinea, P. caerulea, P. foetida, P. giberti, P. macrocarpa, P. macrocarpa x P. alata, P. serrato digitata and P. suberosa; and one Passiflora sp. accession. On isolated plants field cultivated under trellising system, 22 morphological descriptors were studied. The phylogenetic relationships evaluated by the Principal Component Analysis and genetic distances showed a wide genetic diversity among the species studied. Monomorphics characters were showed by some species. Important variability is observed within P. alata and P. edulis and small divergences are found between accessions of the flavicarpa form.
diversity; descriptors; morphology
