Unknown q-hemisphaerica-hairy-sphere

The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Cynipidae | Genus: Unknown
Detachable: detachable
Color: orange
Texture: woolly, hairy
Abundance:
Shape: globular, sphere
Season: Fall
Related:
Alignment: erect
Walls:
Location: upper leaf, lower leaf, leaf midrib
Form:
Cells:
Possible Range:i
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Synonymy:

Gallformers ID Notes

A relatively large, near spherical gall densely covered in orange hairs obscuring the surface, on the upper and lower side of the midrib of Quercus hemisphaerica. Observed in September in Florida.

- Gallformers Contributors: (2024) Gallformers ID Notes©


Further Information:
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Year
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License
Gallformers Contributors
2024
https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

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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-hemisphaerica-hairy-sphere on iNaturalist. You can view them here:
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