Rinorea bengalensis is a species of plant in the family Violaceae. They are seen as understorey trees in wet evergreen forests up to 800 meters in Indomalaya, Australia and Pacific Islands. In the Western Ghats they can be seen at Coorg and Chikmagalur districts.[1]

Rinorea bengalensis
Flowers at Peravoor
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Violaceae
Genus: Rinorea
Species:
R. bengalensis
Binomial name
Rinorea bengalensis

The Rinorea bengalensis contains a very high nickel concentrations for substances with low concentration of an element (e.g. 500 pg/g for plants growing over limestones). It has a hyperaccumulators of nickel with levels up to 1.8%. [2]

References

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  1. ^ "Rinorea bengalensis - VIOLACEAE".
  2. ^ "Nickel accumulation by Rinorea bengalensis (Wall.) O.K."