Unknown q-chrysolepis-smooth-stamen-gall

The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Cynipidae | Genus: Unknown
Detachable: detachable
Color: pink, red, tan
Texture: glaucous, hairless, succulent
Abundance: occasional
Shape: globular
Season: Spring
Related:
Alignment:
Walls: thick
Location: flower
Form:
Cells:
Possible Range:i
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Cynipid Galls of the Pacific Slope

Quercus chrysolepis
Flower galls
Smooth, globular, dropping when mature, bare. Fig 34. Never reared.

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34. Flower gall, a hypertrophied filament. Q chrysolepis. Just starting on May 20 at Baird CA. Galls collected on ground August to November have failed to produce the maker.

- LH Weld: (1957) Cynipid Galls of the Pacific Slope©

Reference: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924018313555&view=1up&seq=61


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