Coronidium monticola is an ascending to upright perennial to about 35 cm (14 in) high and often multi-branched from the base and sometimes a single stem.

The single flower heads are 18–30 mm (0.71–1.18 in) in diameter, involucre bracts in rows of 7–10, bright yellow to orange, some oblong-lance shaped to spoon-shaped, florets including corolla 4–5.5 mm (0.16–0.22 in) long.

Flowering occurs form January to April and the fruit is a narrowly cylindrical achene, grey or brown, ridged, smooth and 2–2.5 mm (0.079–0.098 in) long.

[3][4] Coronidium monticola was first formally described in 2014 by Neville Grant Walsh and the description was published in Muelleria.

[5] Mountain coronidium grows at higher altitudes in montane 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.