Unknown q-phellos-lemon-gall

The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Cynipidae | Genus: Unknown
Detachable: integral
Color: green
Texture: bumpy, hairless, wrinkly
Abundance:
Shape: conical, globular
Season: Spring
Related:
Alignment:
Walls: thick
Location: leaf edge
Form:
Cells: monothalamous
Possible Range:i
Common Name(s):
Synonymy:

Gallformers ID Notes

A yellow-green, hairless, bumpy-wrinkled, near-globular, pointed gall at the edge of young leaves of Quercus phellos, imbricaria, and rubra in the spring, sometimes deforming the full leaf. The gall is succulently thick-walled and contains a single larval cell in the center. Observed in May in Maryland and Ohio.

- Gallformers Contributors: (2024) Gallformers ID Notes©


Further Information:
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Year
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Gallformers Contributors
2024
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