Gynomonoecy is defined as the presence of both female and hermaphrodite flowers on the same individual of a plant species.[ 1] Asteraceae but is poorly understood.[ 2]
It is a monomorphic sexual system comparable with monoecy , andromonoecy and trimonoecy .[ 3]
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