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Charles Darwin was fascinated by the phenomenon of heterostyly. He described (1862, 1877) how he first thought that pin and thrum plants of Primula species represented female and male sexes respectively, but found that they were both functionally hermaphroditic. He demonstrated the infertility of self-pollinations and crosses between plants of the same form, and concluded that the two forms, although hermaphrodites, are “related to each other like males and females… [because plants of each form]… must unite with one of the other form” (Darwin 1862)3.
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Lloyd, D.G., Webb, C.J. (1992). The Evolution of Heterostyly. In: Barrett, S.C.H. (eds) Evolution and Function of Heterostyly. Monographs on Theoretical and Applied Genetics, vol 15. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-86656-2_6
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