heterogamous adjective4 •in which the stamens and pistils are not present in every flower; i.e. there are male and female flowers •in the daisy family Asteraceae, having two types of flowers in a flower head (such as some sterile, some hermaphrodite, or some female, some hermaphrodite) •involving heterogametes in the reproductive process •characterized by alternating generations of a parthenogenetic and sexual nature