Unknown q-douglasii-vein-club

The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Cynipidae | Genus: Unknown
Detachable: integral
Color: orange
Texture: hairless
Abundance:
Shape: linear, spindle
Season: Spring
Related:
Alignment: erect
Walls:
Location: on leaf veins, leaf edge
Form:
Cells:
Possible Range:i
Common Name(s):
Synonymy:

Gallformers ID Notes

A thickly linear, widening slightly to a spindle-shaped club tip, gall at the edge of a leaf of Quercus douglasii. Observed in California in February. Likely an undescribed sexual generation gall of a detachable summer-fall leaf gall.

- Gallformers Contributors: (2024) Gallformers ID Notes©


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Gallformers Contributors
2024
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