Berkheya coddii
Accumulation profile
- Substrate
- Ultramafic (serpentine)
- Habitat
- Serpentine grassland
- Distribution
- South Africa (Mpumalanga)
- First reported
- 1997 · Morrey et al.
- Verification
- review-cited
Description & ecology
A tall, high-biomass African daisy that is a leading candidate for nickel agromining because it combines large yield with foliar nickel above 1%.
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
- Chaney, R. L., Angle, J. S., Broadhurst, C. L., Peters, C. A., Tappero, R. V., & Sparks, D. L. (2007). Improved understanding of hyperaccumulation yields commercial phytoextraction and phytomining technologies. Journal of Environmental Quality, 36, 1429–1443. doi:10.2134/jeq2006.0514