''Coronidium monticola'', commonly known as the mountain coronidium, is a flowering plant in the family

Asteraceae The family Asteraceae, alternatively Compositae, consists of over 32,000 known species of flowering plants in over 1,900 genera within the order Asterales. Commonly referred to as the aster, daisy, composite, or sunflower family, Compositae w ...

and grows in open forests in eastern Australia. It has woolly, grey-green leaves and mostly yellow flowers.

Description

''Coronidium monticola'' is an ascending to upright perennial to about high and often multi-branched from the base and sometimes a single stem. The leaves are grey-green, egg-shaped to oblong lance-shaped,

sessile Sessility, or sessile, may refer to: * Sessility (motility), organisms which are not able to move about * Sessility (botany), flowers or leaves that grow directly from the stem or peduncle of a plant * Sessility (medicine), tumors and polyps that ...

, long, wide, narrowing at the base, apex rounded or acute and ending with a sharp, short point long. The leaf upper surface is smooth with sparse or thickly woolly and lower surface similar with several glands and edges recurved. The single flower heads are in diameter,

involucre In botany, a bract is a modified or specialized leaf, especially one associated with a reproductive structure such as a flower, inflorescence axis or cone scale. Bracts are usually different from foliage leaves. They may be smaller, larger, or of ...

bracts in rows of 7-10, bright yellow to orange, some oblong-lance shaped to spoon-shaped, florets including corolla long. Flowering occurs form January to April and the fruit is a narrowly cylindrical

achene An achene (; ), also sometimes called akene and occasionally achenium or achenocarp, is a type of simple dry fruit produced by many species of flowering plants. Achenes are monocarpellate (formed from one carpel) and indehiscent (they do not ope ...

, grey or brown, ridged, smooth and long.

Taxonomy and naming

''Coronidium monticola'' was first formally described in 2014 by

Neville Grant Walsh Neville Grant Walsh (born 1956) has worked at the National Herbarium of Victoria from 1977. Together with Don Foreman, he authored the first volume of ''Flora of Victoria'', authoring a further two with Timothy John Entwisle, Timothy Entwisle. wh ...

and the description was published in '' Muelleria''.The

specific epithet In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, bot ...

(''monticola'') means "mountain dweller".

Distribution and habitat

Mountain coronidium grows at higher altitudes in

montane Montane ecosystems are found on the slopes of mountains. The alpine climate in these regions strongly affects the ecosystem because temperatures fall as elevation increases, causing the ecosystem to stratify. This stratification is a crucial f ...

forests, subalpine woodland and herb fields on soils that are rocky and usually well-drained in New South Wales, Victoria and the Australian Capital Territory.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q65935005 monticola Flora of New South Wales Flora of Victoria (Australia) Flora of the Australian Capital Territory Flora of Tasmania Asterales of Australia Garden plants of Australia Taxa named by Neville Grant Walsh