Polystepha q-hypoleucoides-red-apple-gall
The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Cecidomyiidae | Genus: Polystepha
Hosts: Quercus hypoleucoides
Detachable: integral
Color: red
Texture: stiff, hairless, wrinkly
Abundance: occasional
Shape: globular, hemispherical
Season:
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Alignment:
Walls: thick
Location: upper leaf, lower leaf, between leaf veins
Form:
Cells: monothalamous
Possible Range:i
Common Name(s):
Synonymy: 
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.
Plant Galls of the Western United States
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Unknown #55
Red-apple-gall wasp [sic]
Hosts: Quercus hypoleucoides
These round to ovoid, monothalamous, galls measure up to 5 mm in diameter, with some coalescing to form larger, odd shapes.
Range: Payson, AZ
”- Russo, Ronald A. : (2021) Plant Galls of the Western United States©
Further Information:
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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-hypoleucoides-red-apple-gall on iNaturalist. You can view them here:
