Brazilian plant name: "Moquilles tomentosa"??

[Thomas G. Lammers]

At 01:32 PM 3/21/2005, Doug Yanega wrote:
>We have a new species of parasitic wasp here, and the specimens are
>labeled as having been reared from "coccid on Moquilles tomentosa" in
>Bahia, Brasil - but I cannot, in any online references, find such a
>plant genus name. Does anyone know what plant taxon this refers to?

Here is what turned up by searching for "Moq-" at
http://www.ipni.org/index.html
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<http://www.ipni.org/ipni/plantsearch?id=331781-2&query_type=by_id&back_page=query_ipni.html&output_format=object_view>Asteraceae
Moquinia<http://www.ipni.org/ipni/plantsearch?id=331781-2&query_type=by_id&back_page=query_ipni.html&output_format=object_view>
DC. -- Prodr. (DC.) 7: 22. 1838 [Apr 1838] (GCI)
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<http://www.ipni.org/ipni/plantsearch?id=4364-1&query_type=by_id&back_page=query_ipni.html&output_format=object_view>Bixaceae
Moquerysia<http://www.ipni.org/ipni/plantsearch?id=4364-1&query_type=by_id&back_page=query_ipni.html&output_format=object_view>
Hua -- in Morot, Journ. de Bot. vii. (1893) 259. (IK)
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<http://www.ipni.org/ipni/plantsearch?id=33908-1&query_type=by_id&back_page=query_ipni.html&output_format=object_view>Chrysobalanaceae
Moquilea<http://www.ipni.org/ipni/plantsearch?id=33908-1&query_type=by_id&back_page=query_ipni.html&output_format=object_view>
Aubl. -- Hist. Pl. Guiane 1: 521. t. 208. 1775 (IK)
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<http://www.ipni.org/ipni/plantsearch?id=10113-1&query_type=by_id&back_page=query_ipni.html&output_format=object_view>Compositae
Moquinia<http://www.ipni.org/ipni/plantsearch?id=10113-1&query_type=by_id&back_page=query_ipni.html&output_format=object_view>
DC. -- Prod. vii. 22 (1838). (IK)
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<http://www.ipni.org/ipni/plantsearch?id=25281-1&query_type=by_id&back_page=query_ipni.html&output_format=object_view>Loranthaceae
Moquinia<http://www.ipni.org/ipni/plantsearch?id=25281-1&query_type=by_id&back_page=query_ipni.html&output_format=object_view>
Spreng.f. -- Tent. Syst. Suppl. 9 (1828). (IK)
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<http://www.ipni.org/ipni/plantsearch?id=25282-1&query_type=by_id&back_page=query_ipni.html&output_format=object_view>Loranthaceae
Moquiniella<http://www.ipni.org/ipni/plantsearch?id=25282-1&query_type=by_id&back_page=query_ipni.html&output_format=object_view>
Balle -- in Bull. Seanc. Acad. Roy. Sci. Col., Brux. xxv. 1628 (1954):. (IK)

Thomas G. Lammers, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor and Curator of the Herbarium (OSH)
Department of Biology and Microbiology
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
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