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What is a nectary?

What is a nectary? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (botany) A gland that secretes nectar
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The nectary is supplied by a single vascular bundle comprising xylem and phloem.
At the anthesis, a nectary is present at the base of the ovary and trichomes can be observed on the ovary epidermis.
Many possess, at the base of the ovary, a disc-like nectary from which nectar is secreted via modified stomata.
As is now regarded as typical of bat-pollinated flowers, the corolla is sturdy and the nectary disk is large.
Finally, nectar collects in the saccate nectary spur formed by the fusion of the margins of the labellum and the base of the column-foot.
Its nectary tube is five inches in length, and as slender as a knitting-needle.

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