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A Dictionary of Plant Sciences | 1998 | Copyright

monotypic Applied to any taxon that has only 1 immediately subordinate taxon. For example, a genus that contains only 1 species would be described as monotypic, as would a family containing only 1 genus. Compare POLYTYPIC.

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