Biscutella laevigata
buckler mustard
Accumulation profile
- Substrate
- Thallium/zinc mineralised soils
- Habitat
- Calamine and mine soils
- Distribution
- Europe (Alps and mineralised districts)
- First reported
- 1999 · Leblanc et al.
- Verification
- review-cited
Description & ecology
Reaches extraordinary foliar thallium — over 1% dry weight — on mineralised soils in southern France, making it a key species for thallium phytoextraction.
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
- van der Ent, A., Baker, A. J. M., Reeves, R. D., Pollard, A. J., & Schat, H. (2013). Hyperaccumulators of metal and metalloid trace elements: facts and fiction. Plant and Soil, 362, 319–334. doi:10.1007/s11104-012-1287-3