Producing or bearing carpospores; describing plants or algae that reproduce through carpospores.
From 'carpospore' + '-ous' (full of, bearing). This botanical adjective developed in phycology to classify algae by their reproductive characteristics.
A 'carposporous' species is essentially a seaweed that uses cloning as a reproductive strategy—botanists use this one word to instantly communicate that a species favors asexual over sexual reproduction.
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