A botanical term referring to a structure in certain ferns and related plants associated with male reproductive organs.
From Greek 'andros' (male) combined with 'klinis' (bed or couch). The term appears in pteridology (fern science) to describe reproductive structures.
Ferns reproduce so differently from flowers—with spores instead of seeds—that botanists had to invent entirely new terminology like androclinia to describe their alien-looking reproductive systems.
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