Psychotria sarmentosa
Accumulation profile
- Substrate
- Ultramafic (serpentine)
- Habitat
- Ultramafic forest; scrambling/climbing habit
- Distribution
- Malaysia (Sabah, Borneo), Philippines
- First reported
- 2015 · van der Ent et al.
- Verification
- review-cited
Description & ecology
Foliar Ni up to 24,200 µg/g; described as the only known climbing (scrambling) nickel hyperaccumulator in South and Southeast Asia.
Value compiled by Galey et al. (2017) from the primary Mt Kinabalu surveys of van der Ent et al. (2013b, 2015).
References
- Galey, M. L., van der Ent, A., Iqbal, M. C. M., & Rajakaruna, N. (2017). Ultramafic geoecology of South and Southeast Asia. Botanical Studies, 58, 18. doi:10.1186/s40529-017-0167-9
- 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