Unknown m-texana-circle-gall
The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Cecidomyiidae | Genus: Unknown
Detachable: integral
Color: pink, red, yellow, green
Texture: hairy, hairless
Abundance:
Shape: cylindrical
Season: Summer, Spring
Related:
Alignment: integral
Walls:
Location: upper leaf, lower leaf
Form: leaf snap
Cells:
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.
Gallformers ID Notes
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A perfectly circular leaf snap gall formed by two adjacent (not opposite) leaflets of Mimosa texana or aculeaticarpa. Galls on Mimosa texana were observed in western Texas in May and June, green and hairless, fresh, and apparently mature. Galls on Mimosa aculeaticarpa were observed in Arizona in August, hairy, apparently immature, with a yellow color. Both galls showed a rim of pink-red coloring around the circle and on the tip where the leaf exceeds the circle.
Mimosa dysocarpa added as a host based on this unconfirmed observation.
”- Gallformers Contributors: (2024) Gallformers ID Notes©
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 m-texana-circle-gall on iNaturalist. You can view them here:
