Dorcoceras

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]

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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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 uthongense Prajanban, Patumch. & Panvilai
• Dorcoceras wallichii (R.Br.) C.Puglisi