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 18-Connate sepals

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Connate parts are similar parts fused together.

When the sepals are connate, at least at their base, the sepals are synsepalous.
In this flower of Lychnis chalcedonica, the sepals are connate but the petals are free.

Photo by Ken Robertson and Dan Nickrent from plants cultivated in Urbana.
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