Category: A

Self-fertilisation, when ovules are fertilised after pollination by pollen from the same individual.  

Of the species of a region, constituting the original flora, native. Native or endogenous microorganisms to an area, usually referring to soil microorganisms. Remaining at the site of formation. A blood clot that has not beet carried in the bloodstream from its point of origin is described as autochthonous. Found where developed, as in the…

Dispersal of seeds by the plant itself (e.g. by an explosive mechanism).  

Fruit produced by self-fertilisation [unusual term].  

The author of a plant name; cited as such after the plant name, often in a standard abbreviated form. The right to perform or command.  

(In nomenclature) the indication of who first gave the taxon its name.  

The writer of a book or paper, or (in nomenclature) the person who describes a new taxon. In politics, the member who introduces a bill in the house of its origin, sponsor.  

(In cladistics) a derived character or trait unique to an ingroup, and not present in the outgroup.  

(Of a character in cladistics) derived and unique to a given taxon or monophyletic group.