Unknown e-californica-swollen-flower-bract-gall
The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Hosts: Encelia californica / Encelia farinosa
Detachable: detachable
Color: green
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Location: flower
Form: abrupt swelling
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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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ERRATA: IT IS EXTREMELY UNLIKELY THESE ARE CYNIPID GALLS, DESPITE WHAT IT SAYS ABOVE. QUITE POSSIBLY A MIDGE GALL INSTEAD.
Seen in Riverside County, CA in late March. Flower gall on Encelia californica. Several phyllaries [bracts] have swollen to resemble seed pods.
Several similar flower galls on E. farinosa have also tentatively been included here.
”- 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 e-californica-swollen-flower-bract-gall on iNaturalist. You can view them here:
