plant name help: "Microlina"?

[Vitor Miranda]

Dear Doug,

Considering your plant and habitat descriptions I believe your plant is
a _Microlicia_ (Melastomataceae).
Do you have any pic of  it? If so, send it to me, please. Thus I could
ID more surely.
All the best,
Vitor.

Doug Yanega wrote:

> Hi, all. After struggling for some time online with various botanical
> indices, I've come to the conclusion I need some help with the
> following:
>
> I have some larvae I reared from a plant in Brazil some years ago;
> the plant was from a mid-elevation sclerophyll semi-cerrado scrubland
> that was rich in endemic taxa (among them numerous Vochysiaceae and
> Malpighiaceae), and was identified by a botanist there as belonging
> to the genus "Microlina". This name evidently does not exist, so I'm
> trying to figure out what the real name of the plant might be. My
> recollection was that it was a medium-sized shrub with extremely
> narrow, shining, rigid leaves, but this may not necessarily be true.
>
> Anyone have any ideas what plants in that habitat might have been
> called "Microlina"?
>
> TIA,
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> Doug Yanega        Dept. of Entomology         Entomology Research Museum
> Univ. of California - Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521-0314
> phone: (951) 827-4315 (standard disclaimer: opinions are mine, not UCR's)
>              http://cache.ucr.edu/~heraty/yanega.html
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>         is the true method" - Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chap. 82
>

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