Asphondylia enceliae
The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Cecidomyiidae | Genus: Asphondylia
Hosts: Encelia californica / Encelia farinosa
Detachable: integral
Color: gray, white, green
Texture: pubescent, woolly, leafy
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Shape: globular
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Location: bud, stem
Form:
Cells: monothalamous
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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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Bud-Gall Midge
Asphondylia enceliae
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This midge induces white, wooly, globular monothalamous bud galls along the leafy stems of brittlebush (Encelia farinosa) and California brittlebush (E. californica).
”- Russo, Ronald A. : (2021) Plant Galls of the Western United States©
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