Iberis intermedia Guers.

Accumulation profile

Substrate

Thallium/zinc mineralised soils

Habitat

Mineralised outcrops

Distribution

Southern France

First reported

1999 · LaCoste et al.

Verification

primary-measured

Description & ecology

Promoted to primary-measured 2026-08-23: LaCoste et al. (1999, International Journal of Phytoremediation 1:327–338) report Iberis intermedia accumulating 0.4% Tl (4,000 µg g⁻¹) in above-ground dry tissue from St Laurent le Minier, southern France. The previous attribution to Leblanc et al. 1999 was incorrect; that paper is about Iberis intermedia but the existing source key was missing.

A second French thallium accumulator, trialled alongside Biscutella for recovering thallium from mineralised soils.

References

1. LaCoste, C., Robinson, B., Brooks, R., Anderson, C., Chiarucci, A., & Leblanc, M. (1999). The phytoremediation potential of thallium-contaminated soils using Iberis and Biscutella species. International Journal of Phytoremediation, 1, 327-338. doi:10.1080/15226519908500023 APA BibTeX RIS
2. Reeves, R. D., Baker, A. J. M., Jaffré, T., Erskine, P. D., Echevarria, G., & van der Ent, A. (2018). A global database for plants that hyperaccumulate metal and metalloid trace elements. New Phytologist, 218, 407–411. doi:10.1111/nph.14907 APA BibTeX RIS

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