Moquiniella
{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}
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|taxon = Moquiniella
|authority = Balle
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|Lichtensteinia elegans |Tiegh.
|Loranthus burchellii |(DC.) Eckl. & Zeyh.
|Loranthus elegans |Cham. & Schltdl.
|Loranthus schlechtendalianus |Schult. & Schult.f.
|Moquinia rubra |A.Spreng.}}
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Moquiniella is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Loranthaceae.{{cite web |title=Moquiniella Balle {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:25282-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=18 May 2021 |language=en}} It only contains one known species, Moquiniella rubra (A.Spreng.) Balle{{cite web |title=Moquiniella rubra (A.Spreng.) Balle {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:550551-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=28 October 2021 |language=en}}
It is native to Namibia and the Cape Provinces (region in South Africa).
The genus name of Moquiniella is in honour of Alfred Moquin-Tandon (1804–1863), a French naturalist and doctor.{{cite book | last=Burkhardt | first=Lotte | title=Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition |trans-title=Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition | publisher=Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin | year=2018 | isbn=978-3-946292-26-5 | url=https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2018 |format=pdf |language=German |location=Berlin | doi=10.3372/epolist2018 |access-date=1 January 2021}} The genus of Moquiniella has 2 known synonyms, Lichtensteinia {{small|J.C.Wendl.}} and Moquinia {{small|A.Spreng.}}.
The Latin specific epithet of rubra means red.{{cite book | last=Harrison |first=Lorraine | title=RHS Latin for Gardeners | year=2012 |publisher=Mitchell Beazley | location=United Kingdom | isbn=978-1845337315 }}
Both the genus and the species were first described and published in Bull. Séances Inst. Roy. Colon. Belge Vol.25 on pages 1628-1630 in 1954.