Chorispora macropoda Trautv.

It differs from the previous species by its overall smaller size, yellow flowers, short siliquae with beak less than half as long as the body. Also differs from Chorispora sibirica (L.) DC. by its perennial caespitose habit with smaller and broader fruits having short beak.

Perennial, 5-10 cm long, branched mostly from the base, suberect, glandular, especially above, or glabrous. Radicel leaves 20-30 mm long, 4-7 mm broad, oblanceolate or oblong-spathulate, sinuate-toothed to subentire, stalked, some-times sparsely hairy on the margins. Racemes 8-15-flowered, up to 7 cm long in fruit. Flowers c. 7 mm across, yellow; pedicels 6-8 mm long in fruit, ascending, glandular. Sepals c. 3 mm long. Petals 6-7 mm long, 3-3.5 mm broad, spathulate, clawed, apex emarginate. Stamens c. 3: 4.5 mm long. Siliquae c. 10 mm long (including c. 2-2.5 mm long stylar beak), 2 mm broad, usually with 3 (-4) articu¬lations, moniliform.

Herbs perennial, 4-15(-28) cm tall, with stout, branched or simple caudex, glandular throughout, sparsely covered with simple trichomes to 1 mm. Basal leaves rosulate; petiole 0.5-2.5(-4) cm, ciliate, expanded at base; leaf blade broadly oblanceolate or linear-lanceolate, 0.5-3(-4) cm × 2-7(-15) mm, glandular, base cuneate or attenuate, margin subentire, dentate, sinuate-dentate, or pinnatifid and with up to 8, oblong or ovate lobes, apex acute or obtuse. Cauline leaves absent. Flowers in racemes. Fruiting pedicels (6-)7-10(-15) mm, glandular. Sepals yellowish, ovate, 2-3(-3.5) × 1.5-2 mm. Petals yellow, 5-8(-10) × 2-4 mm; blade broadly obovate, emarginate at apex; claw 3-5 mm. Filaments 2-3 mm; anthers oblong, ca. 1.5 mm. Fruit linear-cylindric, 1-1.5(-2) cm × 2-2.3 mm, corky, strongly torulose, with 5-8 constrictions on each side, glandular; style 2-4 mm. Seeds brown, oblong, 1.1-1.3 × 0.6-0.8 mm. Fl. and fr. Jun-Jul.

Distribution: C. Asia, Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Xinjiang [Afghanistan, India, Kashmir, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Tajikistan].

Fl. Per.: May July.

Gravelly areas, slopes; (2200-)3000-4000(-4500) m.

Chorispora pectinata Hadac.