Unknown q-gambelii-hairy-shoot-cluster
The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Hosts: Quercus gambelii
Detachable: detachable
Color: brown
Texture: hairy
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Shape: cluster
Season: Spring
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Location: stem
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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.
American gallflies of the family Cynipidae producing subterranean galls on oak
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WELD 706.
Host. — Quercus gambelii Nuttall and probably other Rocky Mountain oaks.
Gall.— Cluster of several dozen hairy brown cells that are probably fleshy when fresh, at end of vigorous etiolated shoots coming up under loose stone piles or under mass of humus. It is probably a spring gall. The clusters measure up to 2-3 cm. in diameter.
Habitat. — Collected old galls in July, 1916, at Trinidad, Colorado; Las Vegas, and Rito de los Frijoles near Buckman, New Mexico; Grand Canyon and Flagstaff, Arizona.
”- LH Weld: (1921) American gallflies of the family Cynipidae producing subterranean galls on oak©
Reference: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7562993#page/296/mode/1up
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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-gambelii-hairy-shoot-cluster on iNaturalist. You can view them here:
