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Old 04-12-2002, 08:26 PM
Stewart Robert Hinsley
 
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Default Self-fertile plants

In article , Hussein M.
writes

I don't quite know what you mean by heterostylous (monoecious? not
self fertile?).

Heterostylous means that the species is polymorphic for style length.
It's associated with outcrossing, but I forget the details. Many
Primulas are heterostyles, and the trait turns up in other taxa as well.
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Stewart Robert Hinsley