In general, flowers are attractive, with petals fused to form a floral tube, threads fused with the corolla, making possible the access to the nectar produced in the base of the flower
nectary disk, allowing the floral visitors that present mouth parts with the length related to the size of the
nectary chamber, to reach the nectar (CARVALHO et al., 2007b).
Nectar and
nectary structure in some Argentinean Bromeliaceae.
(2.) Harungana madagascariensis (Glusiaceae) and several other Clusiaceae possess antepetalous stamen fascicles alternating with five indented
nectary scales (Fig.
These other legume species reported from Andros are all additions to the world list (Keeler 2008), the most striking being the spiny, tiny-leaved, large-flowered Pithecellobium hystrix, with one
nectary on each of its small, twice-compound leaves.
Style head globose with narrowly conical upper part or broadly fusiform, usually without basal collar and upper wreath; stigmatic region on sides of lower cylindrical part below adnation of anthers; pollen shed onto sides of upper cone; ovary apocarpous; ovules mostly numerous per carpel;
nectary disc usually well developed.
Ants typically respond by rapidly antennating around the head, tentacular organs, and dorsal
nectary organ of the larvae and accepting sugar-rich secretions from the latter (Saarinen & Daniels 2006).
The small flowers have a ringlike
nectary and are protogynous: The stigma becomes receptive first, while the filaments remain bent; after pollination, the stigma bends and the stamens straighten and release pollen.
Calyx (2-)4-5(-12)-merous; connate or free; sometimes with basal
nectary glands.
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Nectary (studionectary.com).
It is therefore important to select '
nectary plants' that have either extrafloral nectaries or flowers whose nectaries are morphologically accessible to natural enemies (Patt et al.
CRC, upregulated by AP3/PI/SEP, is involved in the control of radial and longitudinal gynoecium growth, carpel fusion, and
nectary location, and participates in the floral meristem termination through the WUS repression [33, 35, 36, 102].
Leaves with exactly 4 pairs of leaflets;
nectary located on the petiole; flowers zygomorphic ...
Nectar composition, origin of nectar solutes, and
nectary functioning," Planta, vol.
Bakshi-Khaniki and Persson (1997) studied
nectary morphology in 31 southwestern Asian Fritillaria species.
