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relating to only one sex or having only one type of sexual organ

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Apomorphies that place Zlatkocarpus closer to living Chloranthaceae are its unisexual flowers and single carpel, but it diverges below the crown group (and the Pennipollis plant in Fig.
In bath sponge (Luffa cylindrica), the flowers were unisexual (Figure 6) (pollination of unisexual and single flowers, third situation).
A higher number of insects were captured on traps deposited along unisexual male coenanthia (60.7%) than on those deposited along bisexual (25.4%) and control-treatment coenanthia (13.9%) (Table 2).
the prothalli were unisexual, and they maintained so throughout the observational period.
The flowers are usually hermaphrodite or less frequently unisexual (SOUZA AND LORENZI, 2005).
No statistically significant differences occurred in the number of unisexual or bisexual stems, or the number of inflorescences, gametangia or sporophytes across the chronosequence for any of the four species.
Thus, they form a crowd of undesirable degree and unisexual culture (Fan and Shen 1990; Bostanci et al., 2007).
The condition represents a special kind of parthenocarpy where in addition to the ovaries; staminodes which are rudiments of androecium in the unisexual female flowers also grow to form multiple fruit-like structures.
Flowers unisexual or bisexual, 4-5-6-merous, bracteates or not; epicalyx entirely in the form of a sheath; androecium isomerous, stamens epipetalous, stigma and style undivided.
All fireflies are unisexual so that one firefly will be attracted to all other fireflies
The flowers are unisexual and incorporated in panicles.
In the Arecaceae family as a whole, the evolution of floral characters has been observed, including progression from bisexual to unisexual flowers, and from monoic to dioic species (Moore and Uhl, 1982; Daher et al., 2010).
americanus, has been described as having dioecious, unisexual flowers with either stamens or gynoecium aborting (Green 1958; Nesom 2012).