Unknown g-hirsutula-leafy-gall
The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Cecidomyiidae | Genus: Unknown
Hosts: Grindelia hirsutula / Grindelia stricta
Detachable: integral
Color: gray, green
Texture: leafy
Abundance:
Shape: rosette
Season: Spring, Summer
Related:
Alignment: integral
Walls:
Location: bud
Form:
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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Leafy-gall midge
Unknown Pl. 455
This midge induces large, polythalamous bud galls on gumweed (Grindelia hirsutula).
Range: central CA
Page 264
”- 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 g-hirsutula-leafy-gall on iNaturalist. You can view them here:
