Chorispora

Chorispora is a genus of plant in the family Brassicaceae.

Chorispora
Chorispora tenella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Brassicales
Family:	Brassicaceae
Genus:	Chorispora R. Br. ex DC.[1]
Species
See text
Synonyms
Chorispermum R.Br.[2]

Chorispora tenella, known by several common names, including purple mustard, blue mustard, musk mustard, and crossflower is native to Eurasia but is well known in other parts of the world, particularly in temperate regions, as an introduced species and a noxious weed.

Species

• Chorispora bungeana Fisch. & C.A. Mey. Enum. Pl. Nov. 1: 96 1841
• Chorispora compressa Boiss. Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot., sér. 2 17: 385 1842
• Chorispora exscapa Bunge ex Ledeb. Fl. Ross. 1: 169 1842
• Chorispora gracilis Ernst Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin–Dahlem 14: 348 1939
• Chorispora greigii Regel Trudy Imp. S.-Peterburgsk. Bot. Sada 6: 296 1878
• Chorispora hispida Regel Bull. Soc. Imp. Naturalistes Moscou 43(1): 266. 1870
• Chorispora iberica DC.
• Chorispora insignis Pachom.
• Chorispora macropoda Trautv. Bull. Soc. Imp. Naturalistes Moscou 33(1): 109 1860
• Chorispora pamirica Pachom.
• Chorispora pectinata Hadač
• Chorispora pectinata Hadac Feddes Repert. 81: 464 1970
• Chorispora persica Boiss. Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot., sér. 2 17: 384 1842
• Chorispora purpurascens Eig J. Bot. 75: 189 1937
• Chorispora sabulosa Cambess. 1844
• Chorispora sibirica (L.) DC. Syst. Nat. 2: 437 1821
• Chorispora songarica Schrenk ex Fisch. & C.A. Mey. Enum. Pl. Nov. 2: 57 1842
• Chorispora stenopetala Regel & Schmalh.
• Chorispora stricta (Fisch. ex M. Bieb.) DC.
• Chorispora syriaca Boiss. Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot., sér. 2 17: 384 1842
• Chorispora tashkorganica Al-Shehbaz, T.Y. Cheo, L.L. Lu & G. Yang Novon 10(2): 106, f. 1 2000
• Chorispora tenella (Pall.) DC. Syst. Nat. 2: 435 1821
• Chorispora tianschanica Z.X. An in Fl. Xinjiangensis 2(2): 378 1995
• Chorispora tianshanica Z.X. An

Names brought to synonymy

• Chorispora elegans Cambess., a synonym for Chorispora sabulosa Cambess. 1844

References

1. De Candolle. Mémoires du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle 7(1): 237. 1821.
2. Hortus Kewensis; or, a Catalogue of the Plants Cultivated in the Royal Botanic Garden at Kew. London (2nd ed.) 4: 129. 1812[1812]

External links

• Media related to Chorispora at Wikimedia Commons