NICKEL ACCUMULATION BY SPECIES OF PELTARIA JACQ. (CRUCIFERAE)
- 1 November 1980
- Vol. 29 (5-6) , 629-633
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1220334
Abstract
Summary: The species Peltaria emarginata (Boiss.) Hausskn., from areas of serpentine in northern Greece and Euboea, has been found to accumulate extremely high concentrations of nickel, often exceeding 1% of the dry mass of the plant leaf. Extreme behaviour of this kind is not found in other species of Peltaria, nor in related genera such as Ricotia, even for those plants which have grown on a nickel‐rich substrate.Several herbarium specimens labelled Peltaria dumulosa Post have also been shown to have very high nickel levels. P. dumulosa appears never to have been described properly, and the specimens have now been identified as Alyssum samariferum Boiss. & Hausskn., a species in which nickel accumulation has been demonstrated previously.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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