Unknown s-interior-midrib-swelling

The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Unknown | Genus: Unknown
Detachable: integral
Color: green, tan
Texture: hairy, hairless
Abundance:
Shape: globular, spindle
Season: Fall, Summer
Related:
Alignment: integral
Walls:
Location: upper leaf, lower leaf, leaf midrib
Form: leaf curl, abrupt swelling
Cells:
Possible Range:i
Common Name(s):
Synonymy:

Gallformers ID Notes

An abrupt, globular-fusiform swelling along the midrib of Salix interior, showing on both sides of the leaf and causing it to curl either upward or downward. Observed in Iowa, Minnesota, and Ohio in July and September.

- Gallformers Contributors: (2024) Gallformers ID Notes©


Further Information:
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Gallformers Contributors
2024
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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 s-interior-midrib-swelling on iNaturalist. You can view them here:
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