Unknown c-origanoides-swollen-bud-gall
The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Cecidomyiidae | Genus: Unknown
Hosts: Cunila origanoides
Detachable:
Color: green, purple
Texture:
Abundance:
Shape: globular
Season: Fall, Summer
Related:
Alignment: erect, integral
Walls: thin
Location: bud, flower
Form:
Cells: monothalamous
Possible Range:i
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Cecidomyiid flower bud galls on Cunila origanoides, discovered and collected by Charles Deam, described and figured by B.W. Wells.
Image by B.W. Wells Β© Public Domain / CC0Our 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.
New United States zoocecidia
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On Cunila origanoides (L) Britt. (Dittany), bud gall, on ends of aborted upper branches; prosoplasma, up-walled type; sub-spherical, tipped with short point, 2β3.5 mm. diam., green at first early becoming bluish-purple, surface glandular same as leaves, sessile on branch end, invested below by an involucre of a few inconspicuous, foliaceous bracts; chamber large, same shape as gall, wall thin, similar to leaf in texture though slightly thicker than leaf; few on any one plant.
β- B.W. Wells: (1921) New United States zoocecidiaΒ©
Reference: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12112726#page/55/mode/1up
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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 c-origanoides-swollen-bud-gall on iNaturalist. You can view them here:
