Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Psychrophila introloba
Common name
Alpine marsh-marigold
Family
Ranunculaceae
Where found
Alpine herbfields, below melting snow patches, and in shallow streams. Kosciuszko National Park.
Notes
Perennial mat-forming herb to about 0.12 m tall, hairless. Leaf stalks and flower stalks fleshy. Leaves basal, 0.8–4 cm long, 5-18 mm wide, tips notched, pointed or blunt, bases with 2 lobes 4–25 mm long bent sharply forwards and lying almost against upper surface of the blade.. Flowers sweetly scented, white to cream, sometimes tinged with magenta, sometimes with darker veins, 20-65 mm in diameter, with 5–8 'petals'. Flowers November and December.
Rare Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Psychrophila~introloba (accessed 2 February, 2021)
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