Lasioptera t-laxa-lily-stem-gall
The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Cecidomyiidae | Genus: Lasioptera
Detachable: integral
Color: green
Texture: hairless
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Season: Spring
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Alignment: integral
Walls: thick
Location: stem
Form: tapered swelling, abrupt swelling
Cells: monothalamous
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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Lasioptera sp.
Lily-stem-gall midge
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Hosts: Triteleia laxa, Brodiaea californica, Dichelostemma capitatum, congestum
Galls can be smooth and symmetrically tapered or abrupt and somewhat knobby.
Range: Napa county CA
”- 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 t-laxa-lily-stem-gall on iNaturalist. You can view them here:
