Exobasidium a-spp-whole-shoot-discoloration
The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Exobasidiaceae | Genus: Exobasidium
Hosts: Arctostaphylos spp
Detachable: integral
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Abundance: common
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Location: petiole, upper leaf, lower leaf, 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.
Gallformers ID Notes
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In this gall the entire shoot tip--and sometimes the entire shoot--is reddened, with the terminal leaves sometimes taking on a flower-like appearance. Blisters and/or hypertrophy may also occur on the reddened shoot. (If reddening, blisters, and/or hypertrophy affect individual leaves, but not the entire shoot tip, the gallformer should instead be identified as Exobasidium arctostaphyli.)
Further research is needed to determine whether this is indeed a separate species from Exobasidium arctostaphyli, and whether Exobasidium arctostaphyli itself is a single species or a species complex.
”- Gallformers Contributors: (2024) Gallformers ID Notes©
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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 a-spp-whole-shoot-discoloration on iNaturalist. You can view them here:
