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Sympetalae
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thumb|A flower showing sympetally (fused petals), a characteristic of the Sympetalae subclass (biology)|subclass|alt=Diagram of sympetalous flower
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thumb|A flower showing sympetally (fused petals), a characteristic of the Sympetalae subclass (biology)|subclass|alt=Diagram of sympetalous flower
Sympetally (fused petals) is a flower characteristic that historically was used to classify a grouping of plants termed Sympetalae, but this term has been abandoned in newer molecular based classifications, although the grouping has similarity to the modern term asterids.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sympetalae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.