Unknown b-sarothroides-ball-gall
The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Hosts: Baccharis sarothroides
Detachable: integral
Color: green
Texture: hairless
Abundance:
Shape: globular
Season: Fall
Related:
Alignment: integral
Walls: thick
Location: flower, stem
Form: abrupt swelling
Cells: polythalamous
Possible Range:i
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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.
Plant Galls of the Western United States
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Ball-gall wasp
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This interesting cynipid wasp induces glossy, round, polythalamous galls just below the flowers of desert broom [Baccharis sarothroides] in October.
”- Russo, Ronald A. : (2021) Plant Galls of the Western United States©
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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 b-sarothroides-ball-gall on iNaturalist. You can view them here:
