Pteris vittata
Chinese brake fern
Accumulation profile
- Substrate
- Arsenic-contaminated and calcareous soils
- Habitat
- Walls, disturbed and contaminated ground
- Distribution
- Pantropical and subtropical
- First reported
- 2001 · Ma et al.
- Verification
- primary-measured
Description & ecology
The first arsenic hyperaccumulator ever described (Nature, 2001), with frond arsenic above 2% dry weight, and now the central species of arsenic phytoremediation.
References
- Ma, L. Q., Komar, K. M., Tu, C., Zhang, W., Cai, Y., & Kennelley, E. D. (2001). A fern that hyperaccumulates arsenic. Nature, 409, 579. doi:10.1038/35054664
- 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