IPNI Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)

urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:17010-1

Publication

Enumeratio Plantarum, quas in China Boreali Collegit

Collation

54

Date of Publication

Mar 1833

Family as entered in IPNI

Gesneriaceae

Type Information

Type Name

D. hygrometricum Bunge ('hygrometrica')

Remarks

Etymology: Greek: Ceras = horn; Dorkás or Dorcas (Δορκάς) = Gazelle (= small slender antelope having curved horns [Bunge mentioned: 'a capsula cornu spiralter tortum simulante' = with a capsule resembling a spirally twisted horn]