Monoecious vs Synoecious - What's the difference?
monoecious | synoecious |
(botany) That has male and female reproductive organs on the same individual plant (rather than on separate individuals), either in different flowersHickey, M. & King, C. (2001), The Cambridge Illustrated Glossary of Botanical Terms'', Cambridge University Press or in the same or different flowersBeentje, Henk. (2010), ''The Kew Plant Glossary , Richmond, Surrey: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, ISBN 978-1-84246-422-9
* 1978 , A. J. E. Smith, Cytogenetics, Biosystematics and Evolution in the Bryophyta'', H. W. Woolhouse (editor), ''Advances in Botanical Research , Volume 6,
* 1997 , LeRoy Holm, Jerry Doll, Eric Holm, Juan Pancho, James Herberger, World Weeds: Natural Histories and Distribution ,
* 1999 , Monica A. Geber, Gender and Sexual Dimorphism in Flowering Plants ,
(biology) Hermaphroditic.
(botany) With male and female organs in the same structure.
*1980 , Anthony John Edwin Smith & Ruth Smith, The moss flora of Britain and Ireland [http://books.google.com/books?id=XIHeScGztrIC], page 192:
*:Occasional plants of var. viridulus have a synoecious inflorescence but are otherwise typical of the variety.
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*1972 , M. G. Bicchieri, Hunters and gatherers today: a socioeconomic study of eleven such cultures [http://books.google.com/books?id=MEi0AAAAIAAJ], page 309:
*:The segmentation of the band is expressed in the arrangement of huts and shelters in synoecious camps; households comprising a segment are clustered close together, but are still an integral part of the whole camp.
Synoecious is a coordinate term of monoecious.
In botany terms the difference between monoecious and synoecious
is that monoecious is that has male and female reproductive organs on the same individual plant (rather than on separate individuals), either in different flowers or in the same or different flowers while synoecious is with male and female organs in the same structure.monoecious
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Alternative forms
* * moneciousAdjective
(-)page 247,
- 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.
page 398,
- Recently, monoecious' plants have been found in several places in the United States. The plants of Australia are ' monoecious and dioecious.
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- 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.
