Gleichenella pectinata
Synonyms: Gleichenia pectinata, Dicranopteris pectinata
Accumulation profile
Rare Earth Elements Facultative
1,447 µg g⁻¹ DW
1.4× the rare earth elements threshold
Other rare earth elements accumulators →
- Substrate
- Acidic, weathered/lateritic
- Habitat
- Open disturbed slopes, tropical/subtropical
- Distribution
- Neotropics; USA-occurring (Florida, Puerto Rico)
- First reported
- 2024 · Goudard et al.
- Verification
- primary-measured
Description & ecology
VALUE AS STATED AT SOURCE (Goudard et al. 2024, Ann. Bot. 133:573–584, doi:10.1093/aob/mcae011, Supplementary Table S2, ICP-AES): Sum REEs 1447 µg g⁻¹ DW (specimen P01316111). Above the conventional 1000 µg g⁻¹ ΣREE threshold.
US link is by occurrence only: value measured on a Paris herbarium sheet, not a confirmed US population; GBIF records US occurrences (incl. Puerto Rico). Confirm US-population enrichment before treating as US-documented.
Contamination note: herbarium surface-dust caveat as for D. flexuosa.
References
- Goudard, L., Blaudez, D., Sirguey, C., Purwadi, I., Invernon, V., Rouhan, G., & van der Ent, A. (2024). Prospecting for rare earth element (hyper)accumulators in the Paris Herbarium using X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy reveals new distributional and taxon discoveries. Annals of Botany, 133, 573–584. doi:10.1093/aob/mcae011