Amphibolips q-phellos-bell-gall (sexgen)

The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Cynipidae | Genus: Amphibolips
Detachable: detachable
Color: white, black
Texture: glaucous, hairless
Abundance:
Shape: globular, cylindrical
Season: Spring
Related:
Alignment: erect
Walls:
Location: lower leaf, between leaf veins
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Gallformers ID Notes

A moderately large, white-glaucous, gall resembling Amphibolips quercusracemaria but differing in having a stout pedicel at its base, giving it a bell-like silhouette. The gall was observed fresh in May and blackened in November, in Arkansas.

- 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 q-phellos-bell-gall on iNaturalist. You can view them here:
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