What does cosexual mean?
Cosexual means (botany) Producing both pollen and ovules..
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(botany) Producing both pollen and ovules..
The platyctenid Coeloplana gonoctena is protandrous (151) and probably is a true sex changer. Females are larger than males and are found only at the end of summer, while males are found all year. It is ectocommensal on an anthozoan. Other members of the genus are cosexual.
First, many plants that appear to change sex are really sequential or alternating cosexuals; the oil palm, Elaeis guineensis (220), and com, Zea mays (173), are examples[…]
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Cosexual means (botany) Producing both pollen and ovules..
Common synonyms include simultaneous hermaphrodite.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The platyctenid Coeloplana gonoctena is protandrous (151) and probably is a true sex changer. Females are larger than males and are found only at the end of summer, while males are found all year. It is ectocommensal on an anthozoan. Other members of the genus are cosexual.
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