{{short description|Genus of Gesneriaceae plants}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Dorcoceras hygrometricum imported from iNaturalist photo 143572994 on 3 January 2024.jpg | image_caption = ''Dorcoceras hygrometrica'' | display_parents = 2 | taxon = Dorcoceras | authority = Bunge<ref>Enum. Pl. China Bor.: 54 (1833)</ref> | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = See text | synonyms = }}
'''''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.<ref>{{cite journal |doi=10.12705/652.5 |title=Generic recircumscription in the Loxocarpinae (Gesneriaceae), as inferred by phylogenetic and morphological data |year=2016 |last1=Puglisi |first1=Carmen |last2=Yao |first2=Tze Leong |last3=Milne |first3=Richard |last4=Möller |first4=Michael |last5=Middleton |first5=David J. |journal=Taxon |volume=65 |issue=2 |pages=277–292 |doi-access=free |hdl=20.500.11820/695626ba-ab62-4b4a-963a-9249015ba212 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>
''D. hygrometrica'' is considered a resurrection plant and its genome has been sequenced to study desiccation tolerance.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Xiao |first1=Lihong |last2=Yang |first2=Ge |last3=Zhang |first3=Liechi |last4=Yang |first4=Xinhua |last5=Zhao |first5=Shuang |last6=Ji |first6=Zhongzhong |last7=Zhou |first7=Qing |last8=Hu |first8=Min |last9=Wang |first9=Yu |last10=Chen |first10=Ming |last11=Xu |first11=Yu |last12=Jin |first12=Haijing |last13=Xiao |first13=Xuan |last14=Hu |first14=Guipeng |last15=Bao |first15=Fang |date=2015-05-05 |title=The resurrection genome of Boea hygrometrica : A blueprint for survival of dehydration |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |language=en |volume=112 |issue=18 |pages=5833–5837 |doi=10.1073/pnas.1505811112 |doi-access=free |issn=0027-8424 |pmc=4426394 |pmid=25902549|bibcode=2015PNAS..112.5833X }}</ref>
==Species== Currently accepted species include: *''Dorcoceras brunneum'' <small>C.Puglisi</small> *''Dorcoceras geoffrayi'' <small>(Pellegr.) C.Puglisi</small> *''Dorcoceras glabrum'' <small>C.Puglisi</small> *''Dorcoceras hygrometrica'' <small>Bunge</small> *''Dorcoceras philippense'' <small>(C.B.Clarke) Schltr.</small> *''Dorcoceras uthongense'' <small>Prajanban, Patumch. & Panvilai</small> *''Dorcoceras wallichii'' <small>(R.Br.) C.Puglisi</small>
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Category:Didymocarpoideae Category:Gesneriaceae genera Category:Taxa named by Alexander von Bunge