Chorispora sabulosa Cambess.

In the absence of flowers (flower colour) and properly developed fruits it may be confused with Chorispora macropoda Trautv., which has smaller yellow flowers and fruits. Pods are eaten raw or cooked by poorer people in the northern parts of our area.

Chorispora sabulosa and C. elegans were simultaneously published by Cambessèdes. Hooker and Thomson (J. Proc. Linn. Soc., Bot. 5: 181. 1861), who were the first to record the species from Xizang, listed the latter name as a synonym of C. sabulosa, which name therefore has priority under Art. 11.5 of the St. Louis Code. The species was not listed in FRPS or in Fl Xizang. (vol. 2. 1985), but the record from Xizang is here confirmed by the study of material cited by Hooker and Thomson (loc. cit.) and also by Jäschke s.n. (WU).

Perennial, 5-25 cm long, suberect or ascending, branched mostly from the base, sparsely hairy with glandular and eglandular hairs, sometimes almost glabrous. Rosette leaves oblanceolate or spathulate, pinnatifid or sinuate-toothed, rarely subentire or entire, stalked, 20-60 (-80) mm long, 2-10 mm broad; cauline leaves ± similar to the radical leaves but gradually becoming smaller upwards. Racemes 10-25-flowered, up to 15 (-20) cm long in fruit. Flowers c. 10 mm across, pink or violet; pedicels 10-15 mm long in fruit. Sepals 3-4 mm long. Petals 6-10 mm long, 3-4 mm broad. Stamens c. 3:5 mm long; anthers c. 1 mm long. Siliquae c. 15 mm long, 2 mm broad, deeply and irregularly torulose; valves rigid, usually glabrous, somewhat tubercled (glandular) ; beak 1.5-3 mm long with a short stigma; seeds 6-10, c. 1.5 nun in diameter; usually valves breaking on each side into 1-seeded parts, often liberating the seeds free; replum persistent.

Herbs perennial, 3-15 cm tall, with slender, branched caudex, glandular, glabrous or sparsely shortly pilose. Basal leaves rosulate; petiole 1-4 cm, usually ciliate, expanded at base; leaf blade oblanceolate or oblong, (1-)2-5(-8) cm × 3-7(-10) mm, glabrous or glandular, base cuneate, margin pinnatipartite, sinuate-dentate or entire, apex acute or obtuse. Cauline leaves absent. Flowers in racemes. Fruiting pedicels 3-10(-15) mm, glabrous. Sepals purplish, ovate, 3-4 × 1.5-2 mm. Petals purple, broadly obovate, 6-10 × 3-5 mm, obtuse at apex; claw 3.5-5 mm. Filaments 3-5 mm; anthers oblong, 1-1.5 mm. Fruit linear-cylindric, 1-1.5(-1.7) cm × ca. 2 mm, corky, strongly torulose, with 2-6 constrictions on each side, glabrous or glandular; style 1.5-3 mm. Seeds brown, oblong, ca. 1.3 × 1 mm. Fl. and fr. Jun-Jul.

Distribution: C. Asia, Himalayas, Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Xizang [India, Kashmir, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan].

Fl. Per.: May-July.

Mountain slopes; 2900-4800 m.

Chorispora elegans Cambessèdes; C. elegans var. integrifolia O. E. Schulz; C. elegans var. sabulosa (Cambessèdes) O. E. Schulz; C. elegans var. stenophylla O. E. Schulz; C. sabulosa var. eglandulosa Narayanswamy ex Naithani & Uniyal.

Chorispora sabulosa is a plant species in the genus Chorispora found in China and Pakistan.

Chorispora sabulosa là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Cải. Loài này được Cambess. mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1841.