Monocarpic plants are those that flower, set seeds and then die. Other terms with the same meaning are hapaxanth and semelparous. The term was first used by Alphonse de Candolle. The antonym is polycarpic, a plant that flowers and sets seeds many times during its lifetime; the antonym of semelparous is iteroparous. Plants which flower en masse (gr... Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monocarpic
Describing plants that flower and produce fruit only once during their life cycle, after which they die. Most annual plants and biennial plants are monocarpic, but there are also a small number of monocarpic perennial plants that flower just once, sometimes after as long as 90 years, dying shortly afterwards, for example, century plant Aga... Found on https://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/21221