Despite the botanical data are only from four characteristics, the average value of genetic similarity found for RAPD markers was of 0.58 against 0.23 for the botanical descriptions, indicating a greater ability of RAPD markers to reveal
the genetic divergence among the accessions investigated in this work than the botanical description.
Moreover, the botanical descriptors were not able to discriminate between the accessions Avana and Amazone, whereas RAPD markers allowed the distinction among all 42 accessions investigated in the comparison between the datasets.
In contrast, null similarity values were absent from the analysis of RAPD markers whereas the botanical descriptions have provided several comparisons of total divergence, such as between the accessions Brasil and Igor, Brasil and
Kozak, Brasil and Lady, Brasil and Lamborguini, Igor and CFOrange, and others (data not shown).