Unknown s-alaxensis-pouch-gall
The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Eriophyidae | Genus: Unknown
Hosts: Salix alaxensis / Salix planifolia
Detachable: integral
Color: pink, red, white
Texture: hairy
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Season: Summer
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Alignment: erect
Walls:
Location: lower leaf, between leaf veins
Form: leaf curl, pocket
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Possible Range:i
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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 #1
Pouch-gall mite
Hosts: Salix alaxensis, planifolia subsp. pulchra
Shapes vary; some individual galls look like clubs, arising from the leaf surface on a narrow neck, then bulging out into a globular, convoluted head.
Range: Alaska
”- 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 s-alaxensis-pouch-gall on iNaturalist. You can view them here:
