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Dorcoceras Hygrometrica
''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. Species Currently accepted species include: *''Dorcoceras brunneum'' C.Puglisi *''Dorcoceras geoffrayi'' (Pellegr.) C.Puglisi *''Dorcoceras glabrum ''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 ...'' C.Puglisi *'' Dorcoceras hygrometrica'' Bunge *'' Dorcoceras philippense'' (C.B.Clarke) Schltr. *'' Dorcoceras wallichii'' (R.Br.) C.Puglisi References {{Taxonbar, from=Q43031446 Didymocarpoideae Gesneriaceae genera Taxa named by Alexander von Bunge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Von Bunge (botanist)
Alexander Georg von Bunge (russian: Алекса́ндр Андре́евич Бу́нге; – ) was a Russian botanist. He is best remembered for scientific expeditions into Asia and especially Siberia. Early life and education Bunge was born under the name, Alexander Andreevič von Bunge on in Kyiv as second son of a family that belonged to the German minority in Tsarist Russia. HIs father, Andreas Theodor was a pharmacist who had emigrated from East Prussia to Russia with his grandfather in the 18th century and his mother, Elisabeth von Bunge, . They moved to Dorpat in 1815 after his father's death in 1814 and attended highschool from 1818 to 1821. He was educated at Dorpat and where he passed through the gymnasium during the period of 1821–1825. Then, he studied medicine and obtained his Doctorate of Medicine from University of Tartu on 1825. He also studied botany there under Carl Friedrich von Ledebour and completed his thesis entitled ''De relatione methodi plan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gesneriaceae
Gesneriaceae, the gesneriad family, is a family of flowering plants consisting of about 152 genera and ca. 3,540 species in the tropics and subtropics of the Old World (almost all Didymocarpoideae) and the New World (most Gesnerioideae), with a very small number extending to temperate areas. Many species have colorful and showy flowers and are cultivated as ornamental plants. Etymology The family name is based on the genus '' Gesneria'', which honours Swiss naturalist and humanist Conrad Gessner. Description Most species are herbaceous perennials or subshrubs but a few are woody shrubs or small trees. The phyllotaxy is usually opposite and decussate, but leaves have a spiral or alternate arrangement in some groups. As with other members of the Lamiales the flowers have a (usually) zygomorphic corolla whose petals are fused into a tube and there is no one character that separates a gesneriad from any other member of Lamiales. Gesneriads differ from related families o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boea
''Boea'' is a genus of plants in the family Gesneriaceae, with species originating from Australia, China, India India, officially the Republic of India ( Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the ..., Malaysia, Birma, Philippines, Polynesia, Solomon Islands, Thailand, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, Nepal, Bhutan, Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos.Skog, L.E. & J.K. Boggan. 2007World Checklist of Gesneriaceae Washington, DC: Dept. of Botany, Smithsonian Institution. For example, ''B. hygroscopica'', also known as the Queensland rock violet in Australia, occurs in Cape York Peninsula and Northeast Queensland as far south as Rockhampton, within an altitude range from . It grows along creek beds, on moist banks, moss-covered rocks in rainforest, open forest, vine forest and gallery forest. Some ''Boea'' species are known as typ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Resurrection Plant
A resurrection plant is any poikilohydric plant that can survive extreme dehydration, even over months or years. Examples include: * ''Anastatica hierochuntica'', also known as the Rose of Jericho, a plant species native to deserts of North Africa * ''Asteriscus'' (plant); * '' Boea hygrometrica'', * ''Craterostigma'', members of the Linderniaceae/Scrophulariaceae with snapdragon-like flowers * ''Haberlea rhodopensis'' * '' Lichen'', a symbiosis that can survive in extreme desiccation, * '' Mesembryanthemum'', the plant can revive within a short period of time after a drought * '' Myrothamnus flabellifolius'', a plant species native to Southern Africa * ''Pleopeltis polypodioides'', also known as resurrection fern * '' Ramonda serbica'', a species in the family Gesneriaceae * ''Selaginella lepidophylla'', a plant species native to North America, Central and South America, and sold as a novelty * ''Tillandsia'' * '' Xerophyta'', a monocotyledonous genus typically occurring on rock ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorcoceras Brunneum
''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 A resurrection plant is any poikilohydric plant that can survive extreme dehydration, even over months or years. Examples include: * ''Anastatica hierochuntica'', also known as the Rose of Jericho, a plant species native to deserts of North Africa ... and its genome has been sequenced to study desiccation tolerance. 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 {{Taxonbar, from=Q43031446 Didymocarpoideae Gesneriaceae genera Taxa named by Alexander von Bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Didymocarpoideae
The Didymocarpoideae are a subfamily of plants in the family Gesneriaceae. It was formerly the subfamily Cyrtandroideae. This subfamily consists mostly of tropical and subtropical Old World genera, found in Africa, Asia and the Pacific. One species ('' Rhynchoglossum azureum'') is native to Central and South America. Description Didymocarpoideae is one of two main subfamilies in the Gesneriaceae, the other being Gesnerioideae. (The third subfamily, Sanangoideae, contains only the genus '' Sanango''.) Didymocarpoideae seedlings usually have cotyledons which become different in size and shape (anisocotylous). One cotyledon ceases to grow at some point and then withers away. The other continues to grow, and in extreme cases may grow to become very large and be the only leaf on the plant ('' Monophyllaea'', some ''Streptocarpus''). Didymocarpoideae flowers usually have two fertile stamens, less often four and rarely one or five. The ovary is always superior. The fruit is usually a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gesneriaceae Genera
Gesneriaceae, the gesneriad family, is a family of flowering plants consisting of about 152 genera and ca. 3,540 species in the tropics and subtropics of the Old World (almost all Didymocarpoideae) and the New World (most Gesnerioideae), with a very small number extending to temperate areas. Many species have colorful and showy flowers and are cultivated as ornamental plants. Etymology The family name is based on the genus ''Gesneria'', which honours Swiss naturalist and humanist Conrad Gessner. Description Most species are herbaceous perennials or subshrubs but a few are woody shrubs or small trees. The phyllotaxy is usually opposite and decussate, but leaves have a spiral or alternate arrangement in some groups. As with other members of the Lamiales the flowers have a (usually) zygomorphic corolla whose petals are fused into a tube and there is no one character that separates a gesneriad from any other member of Lamiales. Gesneriads differ from related families of the Lam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
