Odontarrhena penjwinensis
Accumulation profile
- Substrate
- Ultramafic (serpentine)
- Habitat
- Serpentine slopes, western Iran
- Distribution
- Iran (western ultramafics)
- First reported
- 2023 · Ghafoori et al.
- Verification
- primary-measured
Description & ecology
Mean leaf Ni ~3,270 µg/g; identified by Ghafoori et al. (2023) as the best agromining candidate among three western-Iranian Odontarrhena species.
References
- Ghafoori, M., Shariati, M., van der Ent, A., & Baker, A. J. M. (2023). Nickel hyperaccumulation, elemental profiles and agromining potential of three species of Odontarrhena from the ultramafics of Western Iran. International Journal of Phytoremediation, 25, 381–392. doi:10.1080/15226514.2022.2086213
- 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