[Taxacom] monoecious/dioecious in plant descriptions

[Richard Jensen]

I don't see the problem.  While we know that sporophytes produce spores 
(asexual reproduction), we also know that those spores develop into 
either male or female gametophytes.  To describe a sporophyte as 
unisexual simply means that it produces either male or female 
gametophytes, but not both.

Cheers,

Dick

On 12/5/2011 12:04 PM, Curtis Clark wrote:
> On 12/5/2011 3:38 AM, Mary Barkworth wrote:
>> Personally, I prefer using unisexual and bisexual at the appropriate level.
> Although I understand the rationale, and have read the arguments on both
> sides, I've spent decades trying to get undergraduates to understand
> seed plant sex, and it still bothers me to use those terms for sporophytes.
>

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