Unknown q-lobata-clustered-capsules

The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Cynipidae | Genus: Unknown
Detachable: detachable
Color: brown, green, tan
Texture:
Abundance:
Shape: conical, cluster
Season: Spring
Related:
Alignment:
Walls: thin
Location: stem
Form: witches broom
Cells: monothalamous
Possible Range:i
Common Name(s):
Synonymy:

Gallformers ID Notes

Small, egg-shaped, thin-walled, pointed capsules embedded among densely clustered broom-like bud scales on the trunk or at the base of branches on Quercus lobata. They appear to be green (but hidden under bud scales) when fresh, then dry brown after the emergence. Observed with fresh exit holes in early May in San Jose, CA, suggesting that this is likely the spring sexual generation of a known or unknown species.

- Gallformers Contributors: (2025) Gallformers ID Notes©


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Gallformers Contributors
2025
https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

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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-lobata-clustered-capsules on iNaturalist. You can view them here:
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