Senecio coronatus
Accumulation profile
- Substrate
- Ultramafic (serpentine)
- Habitat
- Serpentine and non-serpentine grassland
- Distribution
- South Africa
- First reported
- 2010 · Boyd et al.
- Verification
- review-cited
Description & ecology
A textbook facultative hyperaccumulator: serpentine populations hyperaccumulate nickel while others on normal soil do not, making it a model for the trait's evolution.
References
- 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
- Pollard, A. J., Reeves, R. D., & Baker, A. J. M. (2014). Facultative hyperaccumulation of heavy metals and metalloids. Plant Science, 217–218, 8–17. doi:10.1016/j.plantsci.2013.11.011