Unknown q-emoryi-abrupt-stem-gall
The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Hosts: Quercus emoryi
Detachable: integral
Color: brown, gray
Texture: stiff, hairless
Abundance: occasional
Shape: globular
Season:
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Alignment:
Walls: thick
Location: stem
Form: abrupt swelling, stem club
Cells: polythalamous
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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Andricus rhizoxenus
(Amphibolips rhizoxenus)*
Abrupt-stem-gall wasp
[Page 167]
Hosts: Quercus emoryi [sic]
Given the repeated finding of this gall on Emory Oak in the Santa Catalina mountains on separate trips, I believe the netleaf host was misidentified or this is a new species.
”- Russo, Ronald A. : (2021) Plant Galls of the Western United States©
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