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What does bigeneric mean?

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Adjective
  1. (botany) Describing an (infertile) cross between plants belonging to different genera.
  2. (taxonomy) Describing a taxonomic group containing only two genera.
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Such bigeneric cross plants do occur rarely in nature, and have at times also been artificially created in the horticultural field.
Information to date suggests that xPitinia is infertile in line with all other bigeneric hybrids.
Since the radish and cabbage belong to different genera, the offspring resulting from this cross is called a bigeneric hybrid.
Pink dawn, a bigeneric hybrid between the narrow-leaved desert willow and the broad-leaved catalpa tree.
On behalf of the registrant Kerry Booth Tate of the Channon, northern New South Wales who chose the cultivar name 'PITA', I coined this new combination bigeneric genus name.
Both nature and hybridisers have crossed different generic species and hybrids to cultivate bigeneric bromeliads, since the plants arrived on this planet.

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