Phyllanthus balgooyi
Accumulation profile
- Substrate
- Ultramafic (serpentine)
- Habitat
- Ultramafic forest
- Distribution
- Borneo (Sabah), Philippines (Palawan)
- First reported
- 2007 · Hoffmann, Baker & van der Ent
- Verification
- primary-measured
Description & ecology
Phloem sap of this species reaches roughly 16.9% nickel — among the highest nickel concentrations measured in any living tissue.
A model species for understanding how nickel is transported and stored in tropical hyperaccumulator trees.
References
- van der Ent, A., Callahan, D. L., Noller, B. N., Mesjasz-Przybyłowicz, J., Przybyłowicz, W. J., Barnabas, A., & Harris, H. H. (2017). Nickel biopathways in tropical nickel hyperaccumulating trees from Sabah (Malaysia). Scientific Reports, 7, 41861. doi:10.1038/srep41861
- 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