Dorcoceras

Dorcoceras
Dorcoceras hygrometrica
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Lamiales
Family:	Gesneriaceae
Subfamily:	Didymocarpoideae
Genus:	Dorcoceras Bunge[1]
Species
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Dorcoceras is a genus of flowering plants in the African violet family Gesneriaceae, native to Assam, Southeast Asia, China and central Malesia. Its species were transferred from the genus Boea in 2016.^[2]

D. hygrometrica is considered a resurrection plant and its genome has been sequenced to study desiccation tolerance.^[3]

Species

Currently accepted species include:

• Dorcoceras brunneum C.Puglisi
• Dorcoceras geoffrayi (Pellegr.) C.Puglisi
• Dorcoceras glabrum C.Puglisi
• Dorcoceras hygrometrica Bunge
• Dorcoceras philippense (C.B.Clarke) Schltr.
• Dorcoceras wallichii (R.Br.) C.Puglisi

References

1. Enum. Pl. China Bor.: 54 (1833)
2. Puglisi, Carmen; Yao, Tze Leong; Milne, Richard; Möller, Michael; Middleton, David J. (2016). "Generic recircumscription in the Loxocarpinae (Gesneriaceae), as inferred by phylogenetic and morphological data". Taxon. 65 (2): 277–292. doi:10.12705/652.5. hdl:20.500.11820/695626ba-ab62-4b4a-963a-9249015ba212.
3. Xiao, Lihong; Yang, Ge; Zhang, Liechi; Yang, Xinhua; Zhao, Shuang; Ji, Zhongzhong; Zhou, Qing; Hu, Min; Wang, Yu; Chen, Ming; Xu, Yu; Jin, Haijing; Xiao, Xuan; Hu, Guipeng; Bao, Fang (2015-05-05). "The resurrection genome of Boea hygrometrica : A blueprint for survival of dehydration". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112 (18): 5833–5837. Bibcode:2015PNAS..112.5833X. doi:10.1073/pnas.1505811112. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 4426394. PMID 25902549.