Heterogamous

Heterogamous

With the term heterogamous, in botany, we mean the following:
– heterogamous population, that is of a plant that has flowers of several types (eg hermaphrodites and unisexuals or carpellates and staminates) on the same individual;
– heterogeneous pollination (see allogamia), when pollination occurs between two different flowers of the same or different species (syn. cross-pollination);
– gametogamy when the fusion occurs between two gametes with slightly different sizes (micro and macrogametes).
The term heterogamous comes from hetero (from the Greek héteros “other, different”) and from gamo (from the Greek γάμος “marriage, sexual union”).