Melikaiella q-rubra-flower-swelling

The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Cynipidae | Genus: Melikaiella
Detachable: integral
Color: green
Texture: hairless
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Gallformers ID Notes

A thick, green, hairless swelling on the axis of a male inflorescence of an unidentified oak. The gall resembles Callirhyis congregata and the host is tentatively presumed to be Quercus rubra.

- Gallformers Contributors: (2024) Gallformers ID Notes©


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Gallformers Contributors
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-rubra-flower-swelling on iNaturalist. You can view them here:
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