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
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.

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

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