Chorispora R. Brown ex de Candolle (Q3677)

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Chorispora is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Chorisporeae
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Chorispora R. Brown ex de Candolle
Chorispora is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Chorisporeae

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    taxon/id/Chorispora R. Brown ex de Candolle
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    Chorispora R. Brown ex de Candolle
    Chorispora
    R. Brown ex de Candolle
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2010. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 7: Magnoliophyta: Salicaceae to Brassicaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    Stems erect or decumbent, branched basally [and distally] (leafy or not).
    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.
    Fruiting pedicels divaricate, stout [slender] (nearly as thick as fruit).
    Flowers: 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.
    Fruits sessile, segments 2, linear, slightly [strongly] torulose or submoniliform, terete;
    valves usually glandular, rarely eglandular;
    replum flattened, (persistent after segments fall off);
    (style beaklike);
    stigma conical, 2-lobed (lobes decurrent, strongly connivent).
    Seeds flattened, not winged, oblong;
    seed-coat not mucilaginous when wetted;