Unknown q-virginiana-root-gall
The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Detachable: detachable
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Texture: pubescent, hairy
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Location: underground (roots+)
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Our ID Notes may contain important tips necessary for distinguishing this gall from similar galls and/or important information about the taxonomic status of this gall inducer.
American gallflies of the family Cynipidae producing subterranean galls on oak
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WELD 408. Plate 37, fig. 34.
Host. — Quercus laceyi Small and Quercus virginiana Miller.
Gall. — Confluent, globular, dried-up galls, 4 mm. in diameter, in a small cluster, pubescent on surface. Found in fall on young shoots of live oak buried under thick bed of dead leaves and on laceyi attached to a large root.
Habitat. — Boerne and Cuero, Texas.
”- LH Weld: (1921) American gallflies of the family Cynipidae producing subterranean galls on oak©
Reference: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7562993#page/297/mode/1up
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Unless noted otherwise in the ID Notes, observations of this gall are collected in the Observation Field Gallformers Code with value q-virginiana-root-gall on iNaturalist. You can view them here:
