monoecious

alternative monecious · alternative monœcious · alternative monoicous

1. not comparablebiologyHaving both the male and female reproductive organs in the same individual, either in different flowers or in the same or different flowers; hermaphrodite.

   Recently, monoecious plants have been found in several places in the United States. The plants of Australia are monoecious and dioecious.

   1997, LeRoy Holm, Jerry Doll, Eric Holm, Juan Pancho, James Herberger, World Weeds: Natural Histories and Distribution, page 398

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   Further, species which show continuous variation that is not amenable to orthodox taxonomic treatment, and this is the situation in many monoecious plants, are treated as invariable.

   1978, A. J. E. Smith, “Cytogenetics, Biosystematics and Evolution in the Bryophyta”, in H. W. Woolhouse, editor, Advances in Botanical Research, volume 6, page 247

   Two factors are likely to allow the establishment of forms with reduced pollen output (i.e., fewer male flowers) in a monoecious population: increased seed fitness as a result of an increase in the ratio of female to male flowers, and a reduced rate of self-fertilisation.

   1999, Monica A. Geber, Gender and Sexual Dimorphism in Flowering Plants, page 70