Dorcoceras
| Dorcoceras | |
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| Dorcoceras hygrometrica | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Lamiales |
| Family: | Gesneriaceae |
| Subfamily: | Didymocarpoideae |
| Genus: | Dorcoceras Bunge[1] |
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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
[edit]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
[edit]- ^ Enum. Pl. China Bor.: 54 (1833)
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.