Gossia acmenoides
scrub ironwood
Synonym: Austromyrtus acmenoides
Accumulation profile
- Substrate
- Various (rainforest, not necessarily metalliferous)
- Habitat
- Rainforest and vine scrub
- Distribution
- Australia (Queensland)
- First reported
- 2024 · Abubakari et al.
- Verification
- primary-measured
Description & ecology
Old-leaf Mn of 39,000 µg/g (young leaves 24,000) — read at the primary source, Abubakari et al. (2024, preprint), which describes it as 'contrary to existing knowledge' strongly Mn-hyperaccumulating.
Cross-check flag: Zhang et al. (2026) mis-attributes this 39,000 µg/g figure to the congener G. bidwillii (which reached 24,400 µg/g); the primary study clearly assigns 39,000 to G. acmenoides. Preprint, not yet peer-reviewed.
References
- Abubakari, F., Nkrumah, P. N., Fernando, D. R., Erskine, P. D., et al. (2024). Manganese accumulation and foliar distribution in the Australian hyperaccumulators Gossia bidwillii and Gossia acmenoides (preprint). Authorea (preprint, not peer-reviewed). doi:10.22541/au.170664677.77944926/v1
- 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