nectariferous

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Petals 5, small and narrow, raised on a slender claw, at the summit of which is a nectariferous hollow.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

At the base of the petal a nectariferous scale is seen.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various

Petals often nectariferous or reduced to staminodia or none.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

Petals yellow, with nectariferous pit and scale; carpels thin-walled, striate, in an oblong head; scapose, spreading by runners.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

The disk is hypogynous with five nectariferous glands which are alternate with the stamens.

From Manual of American Grape-Growing by Hedrick, U. P.