Indicative distribution
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Scientific name: Rutidosis leiolepis
Profile last updated:
21 Sep 2021
Description
The Monaro Golden Daisy is a low, tufted perennial with a woody root-stock. Leaves are dark green, woolly underneath, to about 10 cm long and 3 mm wide. The solitary, slightly domed flower-heads are 15 mm across, and occur on numerous 25 cm tall woolly stems. The stems bear a few small leaves. Flower-heads are conspicuous and bright yellow, and surrounded by pale brown, translucent, papery bracts. Flowers appear in summer.
Distribution
The Monaro Golden Daisy is found in scattered populations on the Monaro, and in low subalpine plains of Kosciuszko National Park (eg. Long Plain and Happy Jacks Plain).
Habitat and ecology
- Found in Natural Temperate Grassland on the Monaro.
- Occurs in sub-alpine grasslands in Kosciuszko National Park.
- Grows on basalt, granite and sedimentary substrates.
- Apparently highly susceptible to grazing, being retained in only a small number of populations on roadsides, un-grazed reserves and very lightly grazed pastures on private lands.
Regional distribution and habitat
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Threats
- Loss and degradation of habitat and/or populations for residential and infrastructure developments.
- Loss and degradation of habitat and/or populations by introduction of grazing or the intensification of grazing regimes.
- Loss and degradation of habitat and/or populations by invasion of weeds.
- Loss and degradation of habitat and/or populations from road works (particularly widening or re-routing).
- Loss and degradation of local habitat and/or populations in Kosciuszko National Park by pigs.
- Loss and degradation of habitat due to trampling and grazing by horses.
- Loss and degradation of habitat and/or populations for agricultural developments.
- Loss and degradation of habitat due to burrowing and grazing by rabbits
Recovery strategies
Priority actions are the specific, practical things that must be done to recover a threatened species, population or ecological
community. The Office of Environment and Heritage has identified
9 priority actions
to help recover the Monaro Golden Daisy in New South Wales.
Activities to assist this species
- Undertake pig control in areas that surround populations.
- Protect known populations from changes to land use.
- Do not undertake road works, pasture modification or other changes in land use that may affect populations.
- Do not increase grazing pressures on sites where populations persist - reduce grazing pressures where possible.
- Exclude grazing stock from known areas of habitat by fencing.
- Undertake weed control in and adjacent to populations, taking care to spray or dig out only target weeds.
- Mark sites and potential habitat onto maps (of the farm, shire, region, etc) used for planning (e.g. road works, residential and infrastructure developments, remnant protection, rehabilitation).
- Search for new populations in potential habitat.
Information sources
- Eddy, D. (2002) Managing Native Grassland: a guide to management for conservation, production and landscape protection. (World Wide Fund for Nature Australia, Sydney)
- Eddy, D., Mallinson, D., Rehwinkel, R and Sharp. S. (1998) Grassland Flora: a field guide for the Southern Tablelands (NSW & ACT). (Environment ACT, NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service, World Wide Fund for Nature Australia, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Natural Heritage Trust, Canberra)
- Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992) Flora of New South Wales Vol. 3. UNSW Press, Kensington, NSW.
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