homoecious

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ὅμοιος- (hómoios-, “of like kind, similar”) + οἰκία (oikía, “house, family, tribe”), equivalent to homoe- +‎ -oecious.

Adjective

homoecious (not comparable)

  1. (biology) Having the same host during the entire life cycle.[1]
  2. (botany) A plant species having only hermaphroditic flowers (also known as bisexual or perfect flowers), that is those with both carpels (female) and stamens (male).[2][3]
    • 1995, R. W. Cruden, R. M. Lloyd, “Embriophytes have equivalent sexual phenotypes and breeding systems: why not a common terminology to describe them?”, in American Journal of Botany‎[1], volume 82, number 6, page 816:
      Further, we use homoecious to describe angiosperms with only bisexual flowers. This is an alternative state to heteroecious and complements monoecious and dioecious.
    • 2017, G. A. S. Cruz et al, “M olecular phylogeny, character evolution and historical biogeography of Cryptanthus Otto & A. Dietr. (Bromeliaceae)”, in Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution‎[2], volume 107, page 153:
      Cryptanthus has been divided into two subgenera: (1) Cryptanthus, comprising andromonoecious plants, i.e. plants which harbour both hermaphroditic and male flowers on the same plant, and (2) Hoplocryptanthus Mez with homoecious plants (i.e. with hermaphroditic flowers only)

Coordinate terms

References

  1. ^ Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Homoecious
  2. ^ Stevens, Peter 2001. Angiosperm Phylogeny Website Glossary
  3. ^ Glossary for Vascular Plants - The William & Lynda Steere Herbarium, Retrieved on April 13, 2025
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