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Black rice is a functional rice that can be consumed to prevent or treat sufferers of degenerative diseases. Black rice is rarely found and is limited because farmers who are less receptive to growing black rice because of their shortcomings are plant hight which causes crop stems to fall easily. This study aims to estimate genetic diversity and heritability of black rice on plant height character. The experiment used a randomized complete block design non-factorial namely 8 accessions of black rice with 4 commercial varieties (IR13, IR18, I19 and IPB4S). The results showed that black rice accession treatment significantly affected the plant height character. Plant height character has high area wide heritability with average plant height of 113.4 cm and 108.3 cm for commercial varieties.