Meanings
- not comparablebiologyHaving reproductive organs with both male and female functions.
The features of the oogonial opening and the possible existence of dwarf males point towards relationship with O. rothii N. Pringsheim ex Hirn, which, however, is gynandrosporous.
1984, Acta Botanica Fennica, page 942 more examples
In Œdogonium, varies as are the conditions between monœcious, gynandrosporous, and diœcious, under which the essential elements concerned in the reproduction present themselves, there seems to be still less difference, on the whole, in form and size of the spermatozoid and the oogonium themselves, than in the other cases adverted to.
1865, William Archer, “Observations on the Genera Cylindrocystis (Meneghini), Mesotænium (Näg.), and Spirotænia (Breb.), (= Palmoghlœa, Kütz. pro maxima parte), mainly induced by a paper by Dr. J. Braxton Hicks, F. R. S., F. L. S., on the Lower Forms of Algæ”, in Proceedings of the Natural History Society of Dublin, for the Sessions 1862-63, 1863-64, 1864-65, (Inclusive.), volume IV, Dublin: […] M. H. Gill, page 268This variety differs from the type variety Oe. kozminskii Prescott. var. kozminskii (Prescott, 1944,1951) by its smaller size, gynandrosporous habit and by the strongly capitellate vegetative cells.
1965, Pakistan Journal of Biological and Agricultural Sciences, page 178
Origin
From gyn- + andro- + spore + -ous.
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