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|accepted_name=Chorispora
|accepted_authority=R. Brown ex de Candolle
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Mém. Mus. Hist. Nat.
|place=7: 237. 1821
|year=1821
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Brassicaceae;Brassicaceae tribe Chorisporeae;Chorispora
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Brassicaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Brassicaceae tribe Chorisporeae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Chorispora]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek choris, asunder or separate, and spora, seed, alluding to fruit breaking at constrictions into one-seeded segments
|volume=Volume 7
|mention_page=page 224, 232, 244
|treatment_page=page 510
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Annuals </b>[perennials]; not scapose; usually glandular, rarely eglandular, glabrous or pubescent. <b>Stems</b> erect or decumbent, branched basally [and distally] (leafy or not). <b>Leaves</b> basal and sometimes cauline; petiolate; basal not rosulate [rosulate], blade margins sinuate-dentate, [pinnatifid, or pinnatisect, rarely entire]; cauline absent or shortly petiolate, blade (base not auriculate) margins often entire. <b>Racemes</b> (corymbose [or, rarely, flowers solitary on long pedicels from axils of rosettes], several-flowered), slightly or considerably elongated in fruit. <b>Fruiting</b> pedicels divaricate, stout [slender] (nearly as thick as fruit). <b>Flowers</b>: sepals linear [ovate, or oblong]; petals usually purple or lavender [yellow], rarely white, (much longer than sepals), oblanceolate [broadly obovate or obcordate], claw strongly differentiated from blade, (apex obtuse [emarginate]); stamens strongly tetradynamous; filaments not dilated basally; anthers narrowly oblong [linear], (apex obtuse); nectar glands (2 or 4), lateral, intrastaminal or each side of lateral stamen. <b>Fruits</b> sessile, segments 2, linear, slightly [strongly] torulose or submoniliform, terete; (segments breaking into 1-seeded units, lomentaceous with thick, corky, or woody wall); valves usually glandular, rarely eglandular; replum flattened, (persistent after segments fall off); septum becoming corky, splitting at middle; ovules 5–30 per ovary; (style beaklike); stigma conical, 2-lobed (lobes decurrent, strongly connivent). <b>Seeds</b> flattened, not winged, oblong; seed coat not mucilaginous when wetted; cotyledons accumbent. <b>x</b> = 7.</span><!--

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|distribution=Europe;Asia;n Africa.
|discussion=<p>Species 11 (1 in the flora).</p>
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name=Chorispora
|author=Ihsan A. Al-Shehbaz
|authority=R. Brown ex de Candolle
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Brassicaceae
|distribution=Europe;Asia;n Africa.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Mém. Mus. Hist. Nat.
|publication year=1821
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V7/V7_801.xml
|tribe=Brassicaceae tribe Chorisporeae
|genus=Chorispora
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