Nuytsia 18: 326 (2008) APNI
Taxonomic status:Accepted
Occurrence status:Present
Establishment means:Native
Ascending to erect rhizomatous perennial, 5–55 cm high; stems simple or few-branched, cottony and minutely glandular. Leaves sessile, more or less rosetted at base, oblanceolate to almost linear, becoming narrower upwards, (20–)30–90 mm long, 3–14(–21) mm wide, apex obtuse to acute, usually shortly mucronate; upper surface of rosette leaves hispid to scabrous from retained bases of coarse septate hairs, sometimes overlain with fine cottony hairs; lower surface with cottony hairs, interspersed with numerous sessile or subsessile glands; cauline hairs often with cottony hairs only. Capitula solitary, depressed-hemispherical, 20–35 mm diam. at anthesis; involucre 5–8-seriate; bracts wrinkled, laciniate towards apex, woolly near base; outer bracts straw-coloured, often golden-brown at apex; intermediate bracts spathulate, 8–14 mm long, clawed, opaque, pale or lemon-yellow, rarely golden-yellow. Florets numerous, some outer ones female. Cypselas 2–3.5 mm long, 4-ribbed, glabrous, brown with pale longitudinal ribs; pappus bristles 15–25, c. free, 4–6 mm long, white. Flowers (Sep.–)Oct.–Jan.(–Feb.)
Brid, CVU, DunT, EGL, EGU, GipP, Glep, Gold, GGr, HFE, HNF, HSF, LoM, MonT, MuF, MuM, NIS, OtP, OtR, SnM, Strz, VAlp, VRiv, VVP, WaP, WPro, Wim. Also SA, Qld, NSW, ACT, Tas. Throughout the state except the north-west, mostly in reasonably well-drained open forest to heathy woodlands, rarely grasslands or heathland, from near sea-level to c. 800 m.
Walsh, N.G. (2014). A revision of the Coronidium scorpioides (Asteraceae: Gnaphalieae) complex., Muelleria 32: 16-33.
Bioregion | Occurrence status | Establishment means | |
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Lowan Mallee | present | native | |
Murray Mallee | present | native | |
Wimmera | present | native | |
Glenelg Plain | present | native | |
Bridgewater | present | native | |
Victorian Volcanic Plain | present | native | |
Victorian Riverina | present | native | |
Murray Fans | present | native | |
Gippsland Plain | present | native | |
Otway Plain | present | native | |
Warrnambool Plain | present | native | |
Goldfields | present | native | |
Central Victorian Uplands | present | native | |
Greater Grampians | present | native | |
Dundas Tablelands | present | native | |
Northern Inland Slopes | present | native | |
East Gippsland Lowlands | present | native | |
East Gippsland Uplands | present | native | |
Wilsons Promontory | present | native | |
Highlands-Southern Fall | present | native | |
Highlands-Northern Fall | present | native | |
Otway Ranges | present | native | |
Strzelecki Ranges | present | native | |
Monaro Tablelands | present | native | |
Highlands-Far East | present | native | |
Victorian Alps | present | native | |
Snowy Mountains | present | native |
State |
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South Australia |
Queensland |
New South Wales |
Australian Capital Territory |
Victoria |
Tasmania |