Bassettia pallida (agamic)
The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Detachable: integral
Color: brown, gray, green
Texture: stiff
Abundance:
Shape: spindle
Season: Fall
Related: Bassettia pallida (sexgen)
Alignment: integral
Walls:
Location: stem
Form: tapered swelling, hidden cell
Cells: polythalamous
Possible Range:i
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Bassettia pallida
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Image by LH Weld © Public Domain / CC0
N. valhalla’s cryptic galls on stem nodes (F1), not to be mistaken with Bassettia pallida’s internode clustered cryptic galls (F2).
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.
Descriptions of new Cynipidous Galls and Gall-Wasps in the United States National Museum
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Bassettia pallida, new species
Described from a single speicmen labeled "Savannah, Georgia April 15, 1884."
”- William Ashmead: (1896) Descriptions of new Cynipidous Galls and Gall-Wasps in the United States National Museum©
Reference: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/31780#page/152/mode/1up
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