Last updated:
02 Sep 2025
Distribution of the species within this region
The Hunter Valley Delma is known or predicted to occur in the following sub-regions of the
NSW North Coast Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation of Australia Region.
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Vegetation formations, classes and types
In this region the Hunter Valley Delma - NSW North Coast is known to
be associated with the following vegetation formations and classes. Click on a name to get background information
about it.
- Dry sclerophyll forests (shrub/grass sub-formation)
- Central Gorge Dry Sclerophyll Forests
- 3489 Hunter Escarpment Grey Box Forest
- 3490 Hunter Valley Footslopes Slaty Gum Forest
- 3494 Western Blue Mountains Gorges Box Forest
- 3496 Western Hunter Colluvial Grey Gum Forest
- 3497 Western Hunter Escarpment Slaty Gum-Pine Forest
- Hunter-Macleay Dry Sclerophyll Forests
- 3431 Central Hunter Ironbark Grassy Woodland
- 1608 Grey Box - Grey Gum - Rough-barked Apple - Blakely's Red Gum grassy open forest of the central Hunter
- 3432 Hunter Coast Foothills Apple-Ironbark Grassy Forest
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- New England Dry Sclerophyll Forests
- 495 Brittle Gum - Silvertop Stringybark grassy open forest of the Liverpool Range, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
- 568 Broad-leaved Stringybark shrub/grass open forest of the New England Tableland Bioregion
- 493 Forest Oak - Rough-barked Apple - Silvertop Stringybark shrub grass open forest on protected slopes of the Liverpool Range
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- Northern Gorge Dry Sclerophyll Forests
- 1599 Eucalyptus serpentinicola-Allocasuarina ophiolitica/Spinifex grass low mallee woodland on serpentinite of the lower North Coast
- 983 New England Blackbutt - stringybark grassy forest the eastern New England Tableland Bioregion and NSW North Coast Bioregion
- North-west Slopes Dry Sclerophyll Woodlands
- 506 Black Cypress Pine - White Box - Tumbledown Gum shrubby open forest / woodland mainly in the Mt Kaputar region, Nandewar Bioregion
- 1607 Blakely's Red Gum - Narrow-leaved Ironbark - Rough-barked Apple shrubby woodland of the upper Hunter
- 453 Granite gorge Tumbledown Red Gum - White Cypress Pine - Oleander Wattle low open woodland in the Warialda region
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- Pilliga Outwash Dry Sclerophyll Forests
- 141 Broombush - wattle very tall shrubland of the Pilliga to Goonoo regions, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
- 411 Buloke - White Cypress Pine woodland on outwash plains in the Pilliga Scrub and Narrabri regions, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
- 148 Dirty Gum - Buloke - White Cypress Pine - ironbark shrubby woodland on deep sandy soils in the Liverpool Plains region of the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
- 88 Pilliga Box - White Cypress Pine - Buloke shrubby woodland in the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
- 397 Poplar Box - White Cypress Pine shrub grass tall woodland of the Pilliga - Warialda region, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
- Dry sclerophyll forests (shrubby sub-formation)
- Coastal Dune Dry Sclerophyll Forests
- 3544 Coastal Sands Apple-Blackbutt Forest
- 3545 Coastal Sands Bloodwood Low Forest
- 3546 Coastal Sands Littoral Scrub-Forest
- 3556 Umina Coastal Sand Woodland
- North Coast Dry Sclerophyll Forests
- 481 Rough-barked Apple - Blakely's Red Gum - Narrow-leaved Stringybark +/- Grey Gum sandstone riparian grass fern open forest on in the southern Brigalow Belt South Bioregion and Upper Hunter region
- Northern Escarpment Dry Sclerophyll Forests
- 626 Murrurundi Stringybark dry open forest on conglomerate outcrops in the upper Hunter Valley region
- 1617 New England Blackbutt - Diehard Stringybark shrubby open forest on the Northern Tablelands escarpment and Barrington Tops
- Northern Tableland Dry Sclerophyll Forests
- 502 Black Cypress Pine - Orange Gum - Tumbledown Red Gum shrubby woodland on granites of the Nandewar Bioregion and New England Tableland Bioregion
- 503 Black Cypress Pine - Orange Gum heath shrubland or woodland on granite outcrops of the New England Tableland Bioregion
- 504 Black Cypress Pine - Rough-barked Apple - stringybark shrubby open forest of the Nandewar Bioregion and western New England Tableland Bioregion
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- South Coast Sands Dry Sclerophyll Forests
- 1675 Scribbly Gum - Narrow-leaved Ironbark - Bossiaea rhombifolia heathy open forest on sandstone ranges of the Sydney Basin
- Southern Tableland Dry Sclerophyll Forests
- 701 Blakely's Red Gum - Red Stringybark open forest on slopes and hills of the western slopes
- 1177 Slaty Gum woodland of the slopes of the southern Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
- Sydney Coastal Dry Sclerophyll Forests
- 3581 Hunter Coast Foothills Apple Forest
- 3582 Hunter Coast Lowland Apple-Bloodwood Forest
- 3583 Hunter Coast Lowland Scribbly Gum Forest
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- Sydney Hinterland Dry Sclerophyll Forests
- 1614 Grey Gum - Grey Myrtle - Narrow-leaved Stringybark - Rusty Fig open forest on ranges of the Upper Hunter
- 621 Grey Gum - Rough-barked Apple alluvial flat woodland in the upper Hunter Valley, mainly Sydney Basin Bioregion
- 3604 Hunter Range Grey Gum-Stringybark Forest
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- Sydney Montane Dry Sclerophyll Forests
- 1630 Sydney Peppermint - Grey Gum heathy open forest on sandstone ranges of the Sydney Basin
- Sydney Sand Flats Dry Sclerophyll Forests
- 4122 Cockle Creek Sandflat Scribbly Gum Forest
- 3630 Kurri Sand Heathy Woodland
- 3631 Kurri Sand-Clay Woodland
- 3634 Quorrobolong Sand Flats Forest
- 3636 Warkworth Sands Woodland
- Western Slopes Dry Sclerophyll Forests
- 671 Black Cypress Pine - Acacia - Red Ash shrubby woodland of the far northern Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
- 610 Black Cypress Pine - Dwyer's Gum low woodland / open forest on rocky ridges mainly of the Nandewar Range
- 480 Black Cypress Pine - ironbark +/- Narrow-leaved Wattle low open forest mainly on Narrabeen Sandstone in the Upper Hunter region of the Sydney Basin Bioregion
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- Yetman Dry Sclerophyll Forests
- 370 Black Cypress Pine - Dirty Gum - bloodwood - She Oak open forest on siliceous hills in the northern NSW Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
- 672 Black Cypress Pine - Narrow-leaved Ironbark - Dirty Gum grassy open forest of north western Nandewar Bioregion
- 791 Cypress pine - Bulloak shrubby woodland of northern Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
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- Forested wetlands
- Coastal Floodplain Wetlands
- 4015 Central Hunter Riparian Forest
- 4020 Coastal Creekflat Layered Grass-Sedge Swamp Forest
- 4021 Coastal Creekline Dry Shrubby Swamp Forest
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- Coastal Swamp Forests
- 3983 Central Coast Flats Mesic Swamp Forest
- 3985 Coastal Floodplain Swamp Paperbark Scrub
- 3996 Coastal Sand Swamp Mahogany Dry Forest
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- Eastern Riverine Forests
- 4064 Central Eastern Ranges River Oak Forest
- 4072 Hunter River Oak Mesic Forest
- 4073 Lower North Hinterland River Oak Forest
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- Inland Riverine Forests
- 112 Black Tea-tree - River Oak - Wilga riparian low forest/shrubland wetland of rich soil depressions in the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
- 4089 Namoi-Upper Hunter River Red Gum Forest
- 78 River Red Gum riparian tall woodland / open forest wetland in the Nandewar Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
- 362 Weeping Bottlebrush - Rough-barked Apple riparian low open forest / tall shrubland wetland mainly in the Briglaow Belt South Bioregion
- Grasslands
- Maritime Grasslands
- 3407 Central Headland Grassland
- 3410 Spinifex Strandline Grassland
- Semi-arid Floodplain Grasslands
- 214 Native Millet - Cup Grass grassland of the Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion
- 49 Partly derived Windmill Grass - copperburr alluvial plains shrubby grassland of the Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
- 52 Queensland Bluegrass +/- Mitchell Grass grassland on cracking clay floodplains and alluvial plains mainly the northern-eastern Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion
- Temperate Montane Grasslands
- 569 Derived Snow Grass +/- Kangaroo Grass +/- Wild Sorghum tussock grassland of the NSW Northern Tablelands
- 586 Snow Grass - Swamp Foxtail tussock grassland sedgeland of cold air drainage valleys of the New England Tableland Bioregion
- Western Slopes Grasslands
- 710 Bluegrass - Redleg Grass - Common Woodruff clay plain grassland of northern Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
- 484 Derived tall spear grass grassland on mainly basalt hills of the Liverpool Plains, Liverpool Range and in the upper Hunter Valley (Merriwa district), south-eastern Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
- 619 Derived Wire Grass grassland of the NSW Brigalow Belt South Bioregion and Nandewar Bioregion
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- Grassy woodlands
- Coastal Valley Grassy Woodlands
- 1696 Blakely's Red Gum - Rough-barked Apple shrubby woodland of central and upper Hunter
- 1692 Bull Oak grassy woodland of the central Hunter Valley
- 3315 Central Hunter Ironbark-Spotted Gum Forest
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- Floodplain Transition Woodlands
- 56 Poplar Box - Belah woodland on clay-loam soils on alluvial plains of north-central NSW
- 101 Poplar Box - Yellow Box - Western Grey Box grassy woodland on cracking clay soils mainly in the Liverpool Plains, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
- 244 Poplar Box grassy woodland on alluvial clay-loam soils mainly in the temperate (hot summer) climate zone of central NSW (wheatbelt).
- 81 Western Grey Box - cypress pine shrub grass shrub tall woodland in the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
- New England Grassy Woodlands
- 501 Bendemeer White Gum - Silvertop Stringybark - Rough-barked Apple +/- Moonbi Apple Box grassy open forest of the southern New England Tableland Bioregion
- 498 Black Sallee plateau low woodland in the southern Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
- 704 Blakely's Red Gum - Yellow Box grassy open forest or woodland of the New England Tableland Bioregion
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- Tableland Clay Grassy Woodlands
- 921 Manna Gum - Rough-barked Apple - Yellow Box grassy woodland/open forest of the New England Tableland Bioregion and NSW North Coast Bioregion
- 606 Mountain Gum - Ribbon Gum open forest of drainage lines of the southern New England Tableland Bioregion
- 525 Mountain Gum - Snow Gum grassy open forest at high altitudes in the Kaputar area of the Nandewar Bioregion
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- Western Slopes Grassy Woodlands
- 383 Apple Box - Rough-barked Apple terrace flats woodland of the southern Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
- 509 Blakely's Red Gum - White Cypress Pine - Rough-barked Apple grassy open forest of drainage lines of the northern Nandewar Bioregion and New England Tableland Bioregion
- 599 Blakely's Red Gum - Yellow Box grassy tall woodland on flats and hills in the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion and Nandewar Bioregion
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- Heathlands
- Coastal Headland Heaths
- 3788 Coastal Foredune Wattle Scrub
- 3789 Coastal Headland Clay Heath
- 3793 Hunter Coast Headland Clay Heath
- 3794 Lower North Coast Headland Clay Heath
- Northern Montane Heaths
- 520 Heathy outcrop shrublands on volcanic sediments of the Nandewar Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
- 884 Heathy shrubland on granitic outcrops of the central and western New England Tableland Bioregion
- 519 Heathy shrubland on granitic substrates in the Howell area in the New England Tableland Bioregion
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- Sydney Coastal Heaths
- 3807 Northern Sydney Heath-Mallee
- Sydney Montane Heaths
- 3866 Wollemi Rockplate Scrub
- Wallum Sand Heaths
- 3800 Bouddi Headland Wallum Heath
- 3802 Lower North Sandplain Wallum Heath
- 3805 Southern Sandplain Heath
- Semi-arid woodlands (grassy sub-formation)
- Brigalow Clay Plain Woodlands
- 35 Brigalow - Belah open forest / woodland on alluvial often gilgaied clay from Pilliga Scrub to Goondiwindi, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
- Inland Floodplain Woodlands
- 454 River Red Gum grassy chenopod open tall woodland (wetland) on floodplain clay soil of the Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion and western Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
- 438 River Red Gum riparian tall woodland wetland on basaltic alluvial soils mainly in the Liverpool Plains sub-region, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
- North-west Floodplain Woodlands
- 55 Belah woodland on alluvial plains and low rises in the central NSW wheatbelt to Pilliga and Liverpool Plains regions.
- Riverine Plain Woodlands
- 4104 Central Hunter Weeping Myall Forest
- 1766 Weeping Myall - Plains Grass grassy woodlands of the Brigalow Belt South
- 27 Weeping Myall open woodland of the Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
- Semi-arid woodlands (shrubby sub-formation)
- Inland Rocky Hill Woodlands
- 427 Cypress pine - Tumbledown Red Gum low open woodland to grassland on rocky benches, mainly in the Nandewar Bioregion
- 439 Mock Olive - Tumbledown Red Gum - Red Ash - Wilga siliceous rocky hill low woodland / shrubland in the Gunnedah - Tambar Springs region, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
- North-west Alluvial Sand Woodlands
- 428 Carbeen - White Cypress Pine - Curracabah - White Box tall woodland on sand in the Narrabri - Warialda region of the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
- Western Peneplain Woodlands
- 145 Western Rosewood - Wilga - Wild Orange - Belah low woodland of the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion and eastern Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion