Glossary of Plant Morphology - Pollination and Fertilization

Pollination and Fertilization

• Allogamy – cross pollination, when one plant pollinates another plant
• Anemophilous – wind pollinated.
• Autogamy – self-pollination, when the flowers of the same plant pollinate flowers on the same plant or themselves.
• Cantharophilous – beetle pollinated
• Chiropterophilous – bat pollinated.
• Cleistogamous – self-pollination of a flower that does not open.
• Dichogamy – Flowers that cannot pollinate themselves because pollen is produced at a time when the stigmas are not receptive of pollen.
• Entomophilous – insect pollinated.
• Hydrophilous – Water pollinated, pollen is moved in water from one flower to the next.
• Malacophilous – pollinated by snails and slugs.
• Ornithophilous – pollinated by birds.
• Pollination – the movement of pollen from the anther to the stigma.
• Protandrous – when pollen is produced and shed before the carpels are mature.
• Progynous – when the carpels mature before the stamens produce pollen.