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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%.
Rinorea abbreviata · Rinorea acutidens · Rinorea antioquiensis · Rinorea bicornuta · Rinorea brachythrix · Rinorea cordata · Rinorea dasyadena · Rinorea deflexa · Rinorea deflexiflora · Rinorea dentata · Rinorea endotricha · Rinorea fausteana
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Rinorea bengalensis 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.
