Gunn's Everlasting at Breadalbane, NSW
Identification history
| Coronidium gunnianum | 30 Nov 2017 | BettyDonWood | ||
| Coronidium monticola | 30 Nov 2017 | BettyDonWood | ||
| Coronidium gunnianum | 29 Nov 2017 | gregbaines |
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4 comments
BettyDonWood
wrote:
30 Nov 2017
On balance, I think this is monticola rather than gunnianum, though it does not have all the disgnostics mentioned in the Vicflora key.
https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/flora/key/5904
https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/flora/key/5904
JackieMiles
wrote:
30 Nov 2017
Hi folks, the distinction is tricky but after a lot of agonising I think monticola is the alpine form of what was called Helichrysum scorpioides, which is a compact plant and very silvery hairy. This lankier, greener thing that grows usually in wet areas, mostly high elevation swamp/forest margins, is gunnianum. I'm not getting the location map, but the Hydrocotyle in the background suggests this is in a wet area.
BettyDonWood
wrote:
30 Nov 2017
Thanks Jackie. You would know better than any of us here in Canberra.
JackieMiles
wrote:
30 Nov 2017
Now, I'm seeing the map. So, not even at high elevation in this case, therefore definitely gunnianum. It is supposed to be riparian at lower elevations, but I've only ever seen it around the escarpment swamps down here. Up around Oberon, which is about 2000m elevation I think, it was widely scattered thru wetter dalrympleana-pauciflora-stellulata forest too, not just on swamp edges. I've had a good bit of to and fro with NW about it, as the Oberon thing doesn't fit into either gunnianum or monticola or scorpioides all that well, but I think his gunnianum description is probably just based on too few specimens.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.460604-34.808096
- Places Breadalbane, NSW
Sighting information
- 16 - 100 Abundance
- 28 Nov 2017 06:00 PM Recorded on
- gregbaines Recorded by
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Collections
Plants Daisies gregbaines Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Additional information
- True In flower
- 10cm to 30cm Plant height
Species information
- Coronidium gunnianum Scientific name
- Gunn's Everlasting Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1369.14m Recorded at altitude
- 68 images trained Machine learning
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In flower
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Synonyms
Helichrysum rutidolepis
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