Neuroterus q-muehlenbergii-rough-blister (sexgen)

The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Cynipidae | Genus: Neuroterus
Detachable: integral
Color: brown, yellow, green, purple
Texture: hairless
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Season: Spring, Summer
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Alignment: integral
Walls: thin
Location: upper leaf, lower leaf, between leaf veins
Form: leaf blister
Cells: monothalamous
Possible Range:i
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Gallformers ID Notes

Many small indistinct blisters between lateral veins of Quercus muehlenbergii, green when fresh in June, causing slight curling of the leaf, discoloring to yellow-brown above and purple below by late summer.

- Gallformers Contributors: (2024) Gallformers ID Notes©


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2024
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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-muehlenbergii-rough-blister on iNaturalist. You can view them here:
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