Heteroecus q-palmeri-kernel-gall (agamic)
The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Cynipidae | Genus: Heteroecus
Hosts: Quercus palmeri
Detachable: detachable
Color: green, tan
Texture: hairy, hairless, mottled
Abundance: occasional
Shape: conical
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Location: bud
Form:
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.
Plant Galls of the Western United States
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Heteroecus sp.
Kernel-gall wasp
Hosts: Quercus palmeri
Oval or kernel-shaped, monothalamous bud galls amid clusters of normal terminal buds only on Palmer's oak.
Range: Owen's Peak Wilderness and Santa Rosa Mountains, CA
”- Russo, Ronald A. : (2021) Plant Galls of the Western United States©
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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-palmeri-kernel-gall on iNaturalist. You can view them here:
