Unknown q-dumosa-pip-gall
The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Detachable: detachable
Color: green
Texture: pubescent, hairy
Abundance: rare
Shape:
Season: Spring
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Walls:
Location: bud, fruit
Form: pip
Cells: monothalamous
Possible Range:i
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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.
Cynipid Galls of the Pacific Slope
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Quercus dumosa
Acorn galls
Star-shaped "pip" gall on young acorns. Fig 41.
- A "pip" gall beside young acorns of Quercus dumosa. Taken in summer on ridge road to Bakersfield; also on Mt. Wilson trail above Sierra Madre.
Quercus lobata
Acorn galls
Globular "pip" gall with a crater at apex, 3.8 mm in dia, green, covered with short dense pubescence. Fig 188. Seen once Oct 27 & empty.
Fig 188. Unknown. Cell occupies whole interior of acorn of Q. lobata at Chico, Calif. on Oct. 18 when the nutritive layer was not yet used up. Diameter 5.7 mm.
”- LH Weld: (1957) Cynipid Galls of the Pacific Slope©
Reference: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924018313555&view=1up&seq=80
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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-dumosa-pip-gall on iNaturalist. You can view them here:
