Plant name help

[Robin Leech]

Nothofagus?  Robin Leech
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From: "Thomas Lammers" <lammers at VAXA.CIS.UWOSH.EDU>
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Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 6:50 AM
Subject: Re: Plant name help


> At 09:49 AM 3/22/00 +1100, Murray Fletcher wrote:
>
> >A specimen of scale insect in our collection is labelled "on Notho
> >regia" from Ceylon in W.W. Froggatt's handwriting. Does somebody know
> >what the full name of this host is likely to be? We have very little
> >information on Sri Lankan plants here.
>
>
> The genus Nothopegia (Anacardiaceae) is found in Sri Lanka, but there is
no
> N. regia that I can find in Index Kewensis.  I searched that database for
> "Notho* regia" and turned up nothing.
>
>
> Thomas G. Lammers, Ph.D.
>
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