Unknown q-oblongifolia-crystal-gall

The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Cynipidae | Genus: Unknown
Detachable: detachable
Color: pink, red, white, yellow, tan
Texture: pubescent, bumpy, hairy
Abundance: occasional
Shape: globular, cylindrical
Season: Summer, Fall
Related:
Alignment: erect
Walls:
Location: lower leaf, between leaf veins
Form:
Cells: monothalamous
Possible Range:i
Common Name(s):
Synonymy:
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Plant Galls of the Western United States

Crystal-Gall Wasp
Unknown #59
[Page 202]

Hosts: Quercus oblongifolia

Galls of this wasp species occur on the underside of leaves of Mexican blue oak. These monothalamous galls look like they are covered with crystalline granules that appear to be made of white hairs.

- 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 q-oblongifolia-crystal-gall on iNaturalist. You can view them here:
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