Hyperaccumulators table – 2: Nickel

This list covers known nickel hyperaccumulators, accumulators or plant species tolerant to nickel.
See also:

Hyperaccumulators table – 1: Ag, Al, As, Be, Cr, Cu, Hg, Mn, Mo, Naphthalene, Pb, Pd, Se, Zn
Hyperaccumulators table – 3: Cd, Cs, Co, Pu, Ra, Sr, U, radionuclides, hydrocarbons, organic solvents, etc.

Contaminant	Accumulation rates	Latin name	English name	H-Hyperaccumulator or A-Accumulator P-Precipitator T-Tolerant	Notes	Sources
Ni	9090	Alyssum akamasicum B.L. Burtt			Distrib. Cyprus
Ni	4480	Alyssum alpestre L			Distrib. S. Europe
Ni	8170	Alyssum anatolicum Nyar.			Distrib. Turkey
Ni	29400	Alyssum argenteum All.			Distrib. Italy
Ni	10200	Alyssum bertolonii subsp. Scutarinum Nyar.			Distrib. Balkans
Ni	10900	Alyssum callicrum Boiss. and Balansa			Distrib. Turkey
Ni	16500	Alyssum carcium T.R. Dudley & Huber-Morath			Distrib. Turkey
Ni	20000	Alyssum cassium Boiss.			Distrib. Turkey
Ni	16300	Alyssum chondrogynum B.L. Blurtt			Distrib. Cyprus
Ni	13500	Alyssum cilicium Boiss. and Balansa			Distrib. Turkey
Ni	4900	Alyssum condensatum Boiss. And Hausskn.			Distrib. Iraq, Syria
Ni	18100	Alyssum constellatum Boiss.			Distrib. Turkey
Ni	13500	Alyssum corsicum Duby			Distrib. Corsica
Ni	10400	Alyssum crenulatum Boiss.			Distrib. Turkey
Ni	23600	Alyssum cypricum Nyar.			Distrib. Cyprus
Ni	19600	Alyssum davisianum T.R. Dudley			Distrib. Turkey
Ni	11700	Alyssum discolor T.R. Dudley & Huber-Morah			Distrib. Turkey
Ni	16500	Alyssum dubertretii gomb			Distrib. Turkey
Ni	4550	Alyssum euboeum Halacsy			Distrib. Greece
Ni	11500	Alyssum eriophyllum Boiss. and Hausskn.			Distrib. Turkey
Ni	3960	Alyssum fallacinum Boiss. and Balansa			Distrib. Crete
Ni	7700	Alyssum floribundum Boiss. and Balansa			Distrib. Turkey
Ni	7390	Alyssum giosnanum Nyar.			Distrib. Turkey
Ni	12500	Alyssum heldreichii Hausskn.			Distrib. Greece. Concentration of nickel in the seeds is much lower than that in other plant parts.
Ni	13500	Alyssum huber-morathii T.R.Dudley			Distrib. Turkey
Ni	22400	Alyssum lesbiacum Rech.f.			Distrib. Greece
Ni	13700	Alyssum markgrafii O.E. Schulz			Distrib. Albania
Ni	24300	Alyssum masmenkaeum Boiss.			Distrib. Turkey
Ni	7080	Alyssum murale Wealdstandkit			Distrib. Balkans
Ni	4590	Alyssum obovatum Turez			Distrib. Russia
Ni	7290	Alyssum oxycarpum Boiss. And Balansa			Distrib. Turkey
Ni	21100	Alyssum pinifolium T.R. Dudley			Distrib. Turkey
Ni	22200	Alyssum pterocarpum T.R. Dudley			Distrib. Turkey
Ni	12500	Alyssum robertianum Bernard ex Godronand Gren			Distrib. Corsica
Ni	7860	Alyssum penjwinensis T.R. Dudley			Distrib. Iraq
Ni	18900	Alyssum samariferum Boiss. & Hausskn.			Distrib. Samar
Ni	up to 10,000	Alyssum serpyllifolium			Distrib. Portugal
Ni	1280	Alyssum singarense Boiss. And Hausskn.			Distrib. Iraq
Ni	10200	Alyssum syriacum Nyar.			Distrib. Syria
Ni	6600	Alyssum smolikanum Nyar.			Distrib. Greece
Ni	3420	Alyssum tenium Halacsy			Distrib. Greece
Ni	11900	Alyssum trapeziforme Nyar.			Distrib. Turkey
Ni	17100	Alyssum trodii Boiss.			Distrib. Turkey
Ni	6230	Alyssum virgatum Nyar.			Distrib. Turkey
Ni		Azolla filiculoides	Pacific mosquitofern	Cu, Pb, Mn	Origin Africa; floating plant
Ni	11400	Bornmuellaria sp. petri Greuter Charpion et Dittrich			Distrib. Greece
Ni	21300	Bornmuellaria baldacii Heywood			Distrib. Greece
Ni	19200	Bornmuellaria glabrescens Cullen & T.R. Dudley			Distrib. Turkey
Ni	31200	Bornmuellaria tymphea Hausskn.			Distrib. Greece
Ni		Brassicaeae		Cd, Cs, Ni, Sr, Zn	Phytoextraction
Ni		Brassica juncea	Indian mustard	Cd, Cr, Cu, Pb, Pb, U, Zn	cultivated
Ni	H-	Burkea africana			Elevated levels of Ni in the embryonic axis in the seeds.
Ni	1050	Cardamine resedifolia L.			Distrib. Italy
Ni	540–1220	Cuscuta californica var. breviflora Engelm.			A parasite of Streptanthus polygaloides as well as other species, it can accumulate Ni if the plant host contains some. See 'metal tolerance' in Phytoremediation article.
Ni		Helianthus annuus	Sunflower		Phytoextraction & rhizofiltration
Ni		Hybanthus floribundus	Shrub violet
Ni		Ocimum centraliafricanum	Copper plant	Cu, Ni	Origin Southern Africa
Ni	18900	Peltaria dumulosa Post			Distrib. Asia
Ni	34400	Peltaria emarginata Hausskn. Pobed			372 plants noted; origin California
Ni	17600	Pseudosempervirum aucheri Pobed			372 plants noted; origin California
Ni	14,900 to 27,700, up to 32,000	Psychotria douarrei		Older leaves contain more Ca, Fe, and Cr than younger leaves, but less K, P, and Cu. Zn, Pb, Co, Mn, Mg show no significant variation due to leaf age.	Origin New Caledonia; 372 records of plants. Ni contents in leaves of P. douarrei vary considerably due to leaf age.
Ni	17500	Rinorea bengalensis		Ni	Origin Asia
Ni	18000	Rinorea niccolifera	none	Ni	Origin Philippines
Ni	H-	Salvinia molesta	Water Fern	Cr, Ni, Pb, Zn	Origin India
Ni	H-up to 26% in xylem	Pycnandra acuminata			Origin Caledonia
Ni	H-	Senecio coronatus			Presence of nickel in the part of the fruit covering the radicle and in the radicle itself.
Ni	1000	Shorea tenuiramulosa			Philippine tree	Proctor et al..
Ni		Spirodela polyrhiza	Giant Duckweed	Cd, Cr, Pb, Zn	Native to North America
Ni	21,500	Stackhousia tryonii Bailey			Origin Central Queensland	Batianoff et al. 1990.
Ni	14800	Streptanthus polygaloides Gray	Milkwort Jewelflower		Ni-hyperaccumulation protects S. polygaloides against fungal and bacterial pathogens.
Ni	2000	Thlaspi bulbosum Spruner ex Boiss.			Distrib. Greece
Ni	16200	Thlaspi caerulescens	Alpine pennycress	Cd, Cr, Co, Cu, Mo, Pb, Zn	phytoextraction
Ni	52120	Thlaspi cypricum Brnm.			Distrib. Cyprus
Ni	20800	Thlaspi elegans Boiss.			Distrib. Turkey
Ni	3000	Thlaspi epirotum Halacsy			Distrib. Greece
Ni	12000	Thlaspi goesingense Halacsy			Distrib. Greece
Ni	2440	Thlaspi japonicum H. Boissieu			Distrib. Japan
Ni	26900	Thlaspi jaubertii Hedge			Distrib. Turkey
Ni	13600	Thlaspi kovatsii Heuffel			Distrib. Yugoslavia
Ni	5530	Thlaspi montanum L. var. montanum			Distrib. U.S.A. Ni-hyperaccumulation protects T. montanum against fungal and bacterial pathogens.
Ni	H-	Thlaspi pindicum			Sp. endemic to serpentine soils in Greece and Albania. Ni relatively abundant in some parts of the seed.
Ni	4000	Thlaspi ochroleucum Boiss. and Heldr.			Distrib. Greece
Ni	35600	Thlaspi oxyceras Hedge			distrib. Turkey, Syria
Ni	18300	Thlaspi rotundifolium Gaudin var. corymbosum			Central Europe
Ni	31000	Thlaspi sylvium			Central Europe
Ni	1800	Thlaspi tymphaneum Hausskn.			Distrib. Greece
Ni	7000	Walsura monophylla Elm.			Origin Philippines.	Baker et al.

Notes

In the genus Alyssum, free histamin is an important Ni binding ligand that increases in the xylem proportionately to root Ni uptake. There is a close correlation between Ni tolerance, root His concentration, and ATP-PRT transcript abundance. Thus ATP-PRT expression may play a major role in regulating the pool of free His and contributes to the exceptional Ni tolerance of hyperaccumulator Alyssum species. But this is not the complete hyperaccumulator phenotype because His-overproducing lines do not exhibit increased Ni concentrations in either xylem sap or shoot tissue.
Alpine pennycress or «Alpine Pennygrass» is also found as «Alpine Pennycrest» in.