In zoology, it means a type of parthenogenesis in which the sperm stimulates the egg cell to develop into an embryo, but no genes from the male are inherited.
[4][5] What he actually said was (page 525, translated) Thus in botany, pseudogamy means any reproductive process that requires pollination but does not involve male inheritance.
It is sometimes used in a restrictive sense[6][7] to refer to types of agamospermy in which the endosperm is fertilized but the embryo is not (see Pseudogamous apomixis, below).
Examples of species with pseudogamous apomixis include the Himalayan blackberry Rubus armeniacus and gamagrass Tripsacum dactyloides.
By contrast, autonomous apomixis is the rule among the many apomictic species of Asteraceae including the common dandelion Taraxacum officinale, and also occurs in several genera of Poaceae.