Studies of compatibility of about 14% of the flora indicate that 85% of these species are self-compatible, but their level of autogamy is low. From Wordnik.com. [Juan Fernández Islands temperate forests] Reference
This is sometimes referred to as self-pollination, but this is not synonymous with autogamy. From Wordnik.com. [Pollination] Reference
Self-pollenization (autogamy): pollen moves to the female part of the same flower, or to another flower on the same individual plant. From Wordnik.com. [Pollination] Reference
I wish that I had used some such terms as autogamy, xenogamy, etc. From Wordnik.com. [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2] Reference
The terms xenogamy, geitonogamy, and autogamy were first suggested by Kerner in. From Wordnik.com. [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2] Reference
I entirely agree with you on the a priori probability of geitonogamy being more advantageous than autogamy; and. From Wordnik.com. [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2] Reference
In xenogamy the pollen comes from another PLANT; in geitonogamy from another FLOWER on the same PLANT; in autogamy from the androecium of the fertilised. From Wordnik.com. [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2] Reference
I cannot remember having ever expressed a belief that autogamy, as a general rule, was better than geitonogamy; but the cases recorded by me seem too strong not to make me suspect that there was some unknown advantage in autogamy. From Wordnik.com. [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2] Reference
(pages 79-80) that the balance of the available evidence is in favour of the belief that geitonogamy is intermediate, in effectiveness, between autogamy and xenogamy.). From Wordnik.com. [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2] Reference
On xenogamy and autogamy. From Wordnik.com. [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2] Reference
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