Unknown q-obtusata-wooly-petiole-cluster
The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Hosts: Quercus obtusata
Detachable: detachable
Color: brown, gray, red, white
Texture: woolly, hairy
Abundance:
Shape: tuft, cluster
Season: Fall, Winter
Related:
Alignment: erect, leaning
Walls: thick
Location: petiole
Form:
Cells: monothalamous
Possible Range:i
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Image by Adam Kranz © Public Domain / CC0
Image by Adam Kranz © Public Domain / CC0
Image by Adam Kranz © 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.
Gallformers ID Notes
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A cluster of irregularly shaped, thick-walled red galls covered in a tuft of white hair, observed on Quercus ?obtusata in Michoacan, Mexico in December. Distinct from Druon tuft galls on Mexican white oaks only after removing hairs. Likely belongs to the Andricus dimorphus clade; cf petiole-specific clusters like Andricus weldi.
”- 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 q-obtusata-wooly-petiole-cluster on iNaturalist. You can view them here:
