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Phyllanthus rufuschaneyi

Family
Phyllanthaceae (Phyllanth family)
Native range
Borneo (Sabah)
Climate
wet tropical

About

Phyllanthus rufuschaneyi is a bioaccumulating plant from Sabah, Malaysia. It is known only from Ranau District on the lower slopes of Mount Kinabalu, up to 700 metres elevation. It grows on ultrabasic serpentinite-derived soils. It is threatened with habitat loss from deforestation.

It is harvested and burned, and the ash can contain up to 25% nickel.

Other Phyllanthus plants

Drummond's leaf-flower · Tahitian gooseberry tree · Jamaican gooseberry tree · Carry me seed · Phyllanthus anamalayanus · Phyllanthus arbuscula · Phyllanthus axillaris · Phyllanthus balgooyi · Phyllanthus · Phyllanthus caesiifolius · Phyllanthus calycinus · Carolina leaf-flower

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Phyllanthus rufuschaneyi by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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