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Morphological traits are one of the most useful methods for identification of species, genus, systematic relationship and distinguishing varieties. This study was carried out to provide morphological description for Iranian chickpea varieties. In this research eight varieties of chickpea (Hashem, Arman, Jam, Kaka, Piruz, Azad, Kourosh and Bivanij) were cultivated in Karaj in randomized completely block design with 4 replications for two years in Karaj research station. Based on Iranian national guideline of chickpea, plant height, branch number, leaflet length, leaflet width, leaflet length/leaflet width, leaflet number/leaf, seed size, number of seed per pod, pod length, pod beak length, petiole length, 100 seed weight, days to maturity, days to flowering were evaluated. The result of variances analysis showed that the varieties had significant difference in all traits except pod petiole length and pod beak length. This result indicates that these characters had no role in distinguishing varieties. The result of present study showed that interaction of variety ( year was significant for plant height and 100- seed weight. Therefore, we may not use these characters for distinguishing varieties, due to be not stable in different years.