Get Free Checker

autogamous

ADJECTIVE
  1. characterized by or fit for autogamy

How To Use autogamous In A Sentence

  • On the basis of the phylogenic relationships, autogamous species most likely evolved from self-incompatibility ancestors that have exserted stigmas.
  • Leersia oryzoides was for a long time thought to produce only cleistogamic and therefore autogamous flowers. More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1
  • If so, is it autogamous (capable of self-fertilization in the absence of pollinators)?
  • Perfect flowers are protandrous, hence the stigmas open after anthesis, which reduces the probability of autogamous self-pollination.
View all