Brazilian plant name: "Moquilles tomentosa"??

[Doug Yanega]

Joe Kirkbride wrote:

>Look at the following GRIN web page:
>http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?22045, and you
>will see that Moquilea tomentosa Benth. is the basionym of Licania
>tomentosa (Benth.) Fritsch.  According to Prance (1972) the species
>occurs in coastal, Brasilian restinga forests from Amazonia to Santa
>Catarina.

That's the plant. Ironically enough, I myself have reared numerous
critters on it (while I was in Brazil), though I knew it as Licania.
I also find it odd that Google returns no correct hits when I type in
"Moquil"...I hadn't realized that Google couldn't do anything other
than whole word searches, even in advanced search mode.

Thanks to all who helped.
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Doug Yanega        Dept. of Entomology         Entomology Research Museum
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