# Connate

**Source**: https://eflora.sydney.edu.au/glossary/connate
**Parent**: https://eflora.sydney.edu.au/glossary/

organically [fused](https://eflora.sydney.edu.au/glossary/fused "joined and growing together.") to one or more members of the same [whorl](https://eflora.sydney.edu.au/glossary/whorl "a group of three or more appendages arising from the axis at the same level.").

## Related terms

- [Calyptra](https://eflora.sydney.edu.au/glossary/calyptra)
- [Limb](https://eflora.sydney.edu.au/glossary/limb)
- [Whorl](https://eflora.sydney.edu.au/glossary/whorl)