A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

androgynus,-a,-um (adj.A): androgynous, having male (staminate) and female (pistillate) flowers or sex organs in the same inflorescence; generally synonymous with synoicous, q.v., also with paroicous, q.v.; with particular reference to the Cyperaceae, the male (staminate) flowers are at the apex (Fernald 1950); in mycology, with the antheridium and its oogonium on one hypha (monoclinous, having the antheridium on the oogonial stalk; diclinous, with the oogonium and its antheridium on different hyphae);

- limine 1.5-2 mm alto, basem androgynam leviter involventi, with the limen 1.5-2 mm tall, weakly involving the androgynous base.

- spicis lateralibus androgynis, with lateral spikes androgynous.

- flores in capitulo centripetim evoluti, in capitulis heterogamis androgynis flores [fem.]semper in ambitu 1-oo-seriatim dispositi, [hermaphroditic] in disco centrales, flowers centripetally developed into little heads, female flowers arranged in heterogamous androgynous capitula always on the circumference 1-indeterminate serially arranged, the hermaphroditic (flowers) central on the disc.

- capitula androgyna, the capitula androgynous (developing both staminate and pistillate flowers in the same capitulum-inflorescence.

- capitula nunc androgyna v. unisexualia et discreta v. rarius aggregata, nunc homogama discretaque(B&H), capitula sometimes androgynous or unisexual and separated or more rarely aggregated, sometimes homogamous [i.e. with one flower type] and separate.

NOTE: hermaphroditic, q.v., is having stamens and pistils in the same flower; ‘heterogamous’ indicates having at least two flower types, as neuter, unisexual and hermaphrodite in the same inflorescence.