idioandrosporous

English

Etymology

From idio- +‎ andro- +‎ spore +‎ -ous.

Adjective

idioandrosporous (not comparable)

1. 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).