Asphondylia f-californica-flower-gall
The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Cecidomyiidae | Genus: Asphondylia
Hosts: Frangula californica
Detachable: integral
Color: brown, red, green, black, purple
Texture: mottled
Abundance:
Shape: globular
Season: Spring
Related:
Alignment: integral
Walls: thin
Location: flower
Form:
Cells: monothalamous
Possible Range:i
Common Name(s):
Synonymy: 
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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Flower-Gall Midge
Asphondylia sp.
Fresh galls are spongy and light green, with small red spots or broken red lines, and terminate in a small point.
Host: Frangula californica
Season: Spring
- Russo, Ronald A. : (2021) Plant Galls of the Western United States©
Further Information:
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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 f-californica-flower-gall on iNaturalist. You can view them here:
