Numerous identifiable and measurable morphologic descriptors are used for germplasm characterization and/or evaluation (IPGRI, 1995). They are related to the seedling, plant and stem, the inflorescence, the fruits, or to the seeds and are more or less species specific. Some descriptors are often considered as useful for assignment of accessions to species of the genus. Hence, Baral and Bosland (2004) used morphologic descriptors to verify species assignment at the germplasm repository for the
C. chinense and C. frutescens accessions they studied. Using discriminant analysis, their study confirmed the usefulness of morphological descriptors in species classification, though not for all descriptors, but only two (calyx constriction and flower position). Fonseca et al. (2008) also assigned successfully 100% of the C. chinense accessions they studied to their corresponding species at the germplasm repository using mainly inflorescence characters. More recently, these results were confirmed by Ortiz et al. (2010) who reported the efficacy of inflorescence descriptors and seed color to reliably distinguish among Capsicum species. Using about 90 chili accessions, these