idioandrosporous
English edit
Etymology edit
From idio- + andro- + spore + -ous.
Adjective edit
idioandrosporous (not comparable)
- Having androspores formed on filaments without oogonia.
- 1874, The Journal of Botany, British and Foreign, new series, volume III (volume XII of the entire work), London: Ranken & Co., page 373:
- By far the greatest number of the species are gynandrosporous—one only as yet observed, B. polyandra, Cleve, being idioandrosporous.
- 1936, Rhodora, page 69:
- They differ, however, chiefly in having an idioandrosporous habit, a greater size, frequently long seriate oogonial chains, and the oospore usually not quite filling the oogonium.
- 1987, G. Robin South, Alan Whittick, An Introduction to Phycology, Blackwell Scientific Publications, published 1996, page 139:
- In idioandrosporous species the androspore is chemically attracted to the female filament (Rawitscher-Kunkel & Machlis, 1962).