Psychotria douarrei
Synonym: Psychotria gabriellae
Accumulation profile
- Substrate
- Ultramafic (serpentine)
- Habitat
- Ultramafic maquis and rainforest
- Distribution
- New Caledonia
- First reported
- 1978 · Jaffré & Schmid
- Verification
- review-cited
Description & ecology
A New Caledonian shrub holding one of the highest foliar nickel concentrations recorded in any plant, cited around 4.7% of leaf dry weight.
Restricted to ultramafic substrates, where nickel hyperaccumulation is near-universal across the genus in New Caledonia.
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