AuthorStubbs, F.B. (Editor)
Year1986
TitleProvisional Keys to British Plant Galls
ISBN0 9511582 0
TypeBook/Report
Source95pp, British Plant Gall Society (BPGS)
IllustrationsCopious line drawings
Review (by Malcolm Storey)

A short handbook for identification of plant galls. The host plant genera are listed alphabetically. Under each genus the galls are grouped according to which part of the plant is affected.

Now superseded by Redfern & Shirley: "British Plant Galls - Identification of galls on plants and fungi", 2002.

Examine in the Hand ( with x8 or x10 hand lens is also useful)
Specimen PreparationFresh galls
Identification difficultySometimes need to cut a gall open to examine gall-causer

Notes & PurposeStatusTaxonEnglishClassification
For identificationSupersededBacteriabacteria, mitochondria, blue-green algae
For identificationCurrentACARImitesAnimalia
For identificationSupersededDIPTERAtwo-winged fliesAnimalia
For identificationSupersededHYMENOPTERAants, bees and wasps, sawflies and parasitoid waspsAnimalia
For identificationSupersededLEPIDOPTERAbutterflies and mothsAnimalia
For identificationSupersededHEMIPTERAbugsAnimalia
For identificationSupersededNEMATODAroundworms, eelworms or nematodesAnimalia
For identificationCurrentOOMYCOTAa group of mainly plant-parasitic fungiChromista
For identificationSupersededFUNGItrue fungi
For identificationSupersededVIRUSESviruses
SupersededTRACHEOPHYTAvascular plantsPlantae
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