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Polypetalae was a
botanic gardens information
*John Shaffner's key (1911)in the ''Ohio Naturalist'
Historically recognized angiosperm taxa {{botany-stub
Polypetalae was a taxonomic
Taxonomy is the practice and science of categorization or classification.
A taxonomy (or taxonomical classification) is a scheme of classification, especially a hierarchical classification, in which things are organized into groups or types. ...
grouping used in the identification of plants, but it is now considered to be an artificial group, one that does not reflect evolutionary history. The grouping was based on similar morphological plant characteristics. Polypetalae was defined as including plants with the petals free from the base or only slightly connected. Members of Polpetalae contain bitegmic ovules (i.e., ovules having two integuments).
See also
*Plant identification
In biology, determination is the process of matching a specimen of an organism to a known taxon, for example identifying a plant. The term is also used in cellular biology, where it means the act of the differentiation of stem cells becoming fixe ...
* Calyciflorae
Calyciflorae is a grouping of plants that is no longer used by botanists. Augustin Pyramus de Candolle defined it as a subclass within the class Dicotyledoneae. It overlapped largely with the modern Rosids group. The group Calyciflorae was define ...
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*For an illustrated summary of polypetalae, sebotanic gardens information
*John Shaffner's key (1911)in the ''Ohio Naturalist'
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