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Hylocereus undatus, a hermaphrodite plant with perfect flowers that have both functional carpels and stamens. The term hermaphrodite is used in botany to describe, for example, a perfect flower that has both staminate (male, pollen-producing) and carpellate (female, ovule-producing) parts. The overwhelming majority of flowering plant species ...
Animals may be dioecious or sequential hermaphrodites. Sex allocation theory also applies to flowering plants, which can be dioecious, simultaneous hermaphrodites, have unisexual plants and hermaphroditic plants in the same population, have unisexual flowers and hermaphroditic flowers on the same plant or to have only hermaphroditic flowers. [3]
Sequential hermaphroditism in plants is the process in which a plant changes its sex during its lifetime. Sequential hermaphroditism in plants is very rare. There are less than 0.1% of recorded cases in which plant species entirely change their sex. [65]
The sex of a single flower may differ from the sex of the whole organism: for example, a plant may have both staminate and pistillate flowers, making the plant as a whole a hermaphrodite. Hence although all monomorphic plants are hermaphrodites, different combinations of flower types (staminate, pistillate, or perfect) produces distinct ...
Hermaphrodite (botany), a flowering plant that has both male and female structures, that is, it combines both sexes in one structure; Bovine hermaphrodite, an infertile cow with masculinized behavior and non-functioning ovaries; Sequential hermaphrodite, an individual that changes its sex at some point in its life
Part of a series on Sex Biological terms Sexual dimorphism Sexual differentiation Feminization Virilization Sex-determination system XY XO ZW ZO Temperature-dependent Haplodiploidy Heterogametic sex Homogametic sex Sex chromosome X chromosome Y chromosome Sex chromosome anomalies Testis-determining factor Hermaphrodite Sequential hermaphroditism Simultaneous hermaphroditism Intersex (biology ...
Trioecy / t r aɪ ˈ iː s i /, also spelled triecy, is a sexual system characterized by the coexistence of males, females, and hermaphrodites. It has been found in both plants and animals . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Like androdioecy and gynodioecy , trioecy is a mixed mating systems .
Andromonoecy is a breeding system of plant species in which male and hermaphrodite flowers are on the same plant. [1] It is a monomorphic sexual system comparable with monoecy, gynomonoecy and trimonoecy. [2] Andromonoecy is frequent among genera with zygomorphic flowers, [3] however it is overall rare and occurs in less than 2% of plant ...