About Rinorea bengalensis
Rinorea bengalensis is a species of plant in the family Violaceae. They are seen as understorey trees in wet evergreen forests up to 800 metres (2,620 ft) in Indomalaya, Australia and Pacific Islands. In the Western Ghats they can be seen at Coorg and Chikmagalur districts. 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%.
Description adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Rinorea bengalensis
- Genus
- Rinorea
- Family
- VIOLACEAE
- Habit
- Tree
- Distribution
- Indo-Malesia, Australia and Pacific Islands
- Flowering & fruiting
- March-May
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Local Names
- Malayalam
- റിനോറിയ ബെൻഗാളെൻസിസ്
Violaceae
Violet Family
Rinorea bengalensis belongs to the Violaceae family.
The illustration represents the family — not necessarily this exact species.
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