“…This proves that the materials under study, although derived from different geographic regions of Brazil, present intra-and interpopulation variations. Contradictory results were obtained by One et al (2014), studying the phenotypic and genotypic diversity in Jatropha, while Osorio et al (2014) found great phenotypic variations in J. curcas in Central Table 2. Descriptive analysis of the variables-number of branches (NR), plant height (PH), stem diameter (DCL), canopy diameter (DCP), the first branch height (FBH), leaf area (LA) , number of inflorescences per plant (NI), feminine flower (FF), masculine (FM), hermaphrodites (FH), asexual (FA) diameter seed (DS), the length of the seed (CS), width of the seed (LS ), weight of 100 seeds (PS), productivity (PROD), oil content in the seeds (TOS), oil yield (PO), stomatal density in adaxial epidermis (EAD) and abaxial (EAB), leaf concentration of carotenoid total (CAR) ratio of chlorophyll a and b (Cl a / Cl b), total chlorophylls [Cl (a + b)] and specific leaf area (SLA), analyzed in populations J. curcas found in naturally different geographic regions of Brazil.…”