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Broad-headed Snake - South Eastern Highlands: Distribution and vegetation associations

Scientific name: Hoplocephalus bungaroides

Conservation status in NSW: Endangered

Commonwealth status: Endangered

Last updated: 13 Nov 2024

Distribution of the species within this region

The Broad-headed Snake is known or predicted to occur in the following sub-regions of the South Eastern Highlands Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation of Australia Region.

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IBRA sub-region	Known or predicted	Geographic restrictions within region
Bathurst	Predicted	None
Bungonia	Predicted	None
Capertee Uplands	Known	None
Hill End	Predicted	None
Kanangra	Predicted	None

Vegetation formations, classes and types

In this region the Broad-headed Snake - South Eastern Highlands 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
  - 3480 Capertee-Wolgan Escarpment Dry Forest
  - 3489 Hunter Escarpment Grey Box Forest
  - 3494 Western Blue Mountains Gorges Box Forest
  - 3495 Western Blue Mountains Monkey Gum Gully Forest
  - 3496 Western Hunter Colluvial Grey Gum Forest
  - 3497 Western Hunter Escarpment Slaty Gum-Pine Forest
  - 3498 Wingecarribee Gorges Stringybark-Grey Gum Forest
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- North-west Slopes Dry Sclerophyll Woodlands
  - 3525 Upper Hunter Box-Blakelys Red Gum Grassy Forest
  - 3531 Western Hunter Trachyte Spinifex Forest
  - 1613 White Box - Red Box shrubby woodland on sandstone ranges of the Sydney Basin
- Upper Riverina Dry Sclerophyll Forests
  - 1088 Red Box - Grey Gum - stringybark woodland on talus slopes of the western Blue Mountains, Sydney Basin Bioregion

Dry sclerophyll forests (shrubby sub-formation)
- South Coast Sands Dry Sclerophyll Forests
  - 1675 Scribbly Gum - Narrow-leaved Ironbark - Bossiaea rhombifolia heathy open forest on sandstone ranges of the Sydney Basin
- South East Dry Sclerophyll Forests
  - 3654 Shoalhaven Lowland Bloodwood Shrub Forest
  - 3658 South Coast Hinterland Bloodwood Forest
  - 3661 South Coast Hinterland Yertchuk Forest
  - 3667 Southern Highlands Enriched Sandstone Forest
  - 3668 Southern Highlands Scribbly Gum Forest
- Sydney Coastal Dry Sclerophyll Forests
  - 3578 Blue Mountains Low Heathy Woodland
  - 3579 Blue Mountains Scribbly Gum Swamp Woodland
  - 3580 Burralow Swamp Woodland
  - 3585 Morton Plateau Shrub Forest
  - 3586 Northern Sydney Scribbly Gum Woodland
  - 3589 Southern Highlands Escarpment Peppermint Gully Forest
  - 3590 Southern Sydney Scribbly Gum Woodland
  - 3592 Sydney Coastal Enriched Sandstone Forest
  - 3593 Sydney Coastal Sandstone Bloodwood Shrub Forest
  - 3597 Watagan Escarpment Rocky Shrub Forest
  - 3598 Woronora Plateau Scribbly Gum Woodland
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- Sydney Hinterland Dry Sclerophyll Forests
  - 3599 Blue Mountains Peppermint Shrub Forest
  - 3601 Burragorang Footslopes Scribbly Gum Forest
  - 3603 Hawkesbury Escarpment Bloodwood Forest
  - 3609 Kangaroo Valley Colluvial Scribbly Gum-Stringybark Forest
  - 1666 Narrow-leaved Stringybark - Fringe Myrtle - Scaly Phebalium heathy woodland on exposed sandstone ranges of the Sydney Basin
  - 3611 Nattai Plateau Bloodwood-Peppermint Forest
  - 3612 Nattai Plateau Peppermint Gully Forest
  - 3613 Shoalhaven Sandstone Cliffline Woodland
  - 3614 Southern Highlands Sandstone Peppermint Forest
  - 3615 Sydney Hinterland Apple-Blackbutt Gully Forest
  - 3619 Sydney Hinterland Enriched Sandstone Bloodwood Forest
  - 3616 Sydney Hinterland Grey Gum Transition Forest
  - 3617 Sydney Hinterland Peppermint-Apple Forest
  - 3620 Sydney Hinterland Turpentine Sheltered Forest
  - 3621 Sydney Hinterland Turpentine-Apple Gully Forest
  - 3622 Sydney Hinterland Yellow Bloodwood Woodland
  - 1631 Sydney Peppermint - Narrow-leaved Stringybark semi-mesic open forest on sandstone ranges of the Sydney Basin
  - 3623 Western Blue Mountains Grey Gum-Stringybark Forest
  - 3625 Wingecarribee Sandstone Shrub Forest
  - 3626 Wollemi Plateau Stringybark-Grey Gum Forest
  - 3627 Wollemi Plateau Yertchuk-Stringybark Woodland
  - 1667 Yertchuk - Grey Gum heathy woodland on sandstone ranges of the Sydney Basin
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- Sydney Montane Dry Sclerophyll Forests
  - 3686 Mount Airly Sandstone Forest
  - 3688 Newnes Plateau Silvertop Ash Woodland
  - 3689 Shoalhaven Escarpment Peppermint-Silvertop Ash Forest
  - 1630 Sydney Peppermint - Grey Gum heathy open forest on sandstone ranges of the Sydney Basin
  - 3694 Upper Blue Mountains Ridgetop Woodland
  - 3695 Western Blue Mountains Peppermint Sheltered Forest
  - 3696 Western Blue Mountains Rocky Scribbly Gum Woodland
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- Sydney Sand Flats Dry Sclerophyll Forests
  - 3632 Mellong Sand Scribbly Gum Woodland
- Western Slopes Dry Sclerophyll Forests
  - 1709 Broom Bush - Allocasuarina gymnanthera heathy woodland on sandstone outcrops of the Sydney Basin
  - 1671 Brown Bloodwood - Dwyer's Red Gum - Red Ironbark heathy woodland on sandstone ranges of the Sydney Basin
  - 1676 Grey Gum - Scribbly Gum - Black Pine heathy open forest on sandstone ranges of the Sydney Basin
  - 889 Inland Scribbly Gum - Grey Gum - Narrow-leaved Ironbark shrubby open forest on hills of western Capertee Valley, Sydney Basin Bioregion
  - 3762 Northern Wollemi Rocky Stringybark Forest
  - 1674 Red Ironbark - Brown Bloodwood - Black Pine heathy open forest on sandstone ranges of the Sydney Basin
  - 1672 Red Ironbark - Grey Gum - Black Pine heathy woodland on sandstone ranges of the Sydney Basin
  - 1669 Red Ironbark - Grey Gum - Narrow-leaved Stringybark - Brown Bloodwood shrubby open forest on sandstone ranges of the Sydney Basin
  - 1711 Tantoon - Lepyrodia leptocaulis shrubland on sandstone drainage lines of the Sydney Basin
  - 1663 Tumbledown Red Gum - Spinifex grass heathy low open woodland on sandstone slopes of the Sydney Basin
  - 3766 Ulan Sandstone Damp Shrubland
  - 3781 Ulan Sandstone Ironbark-Pine Woodland
  - 3771 Western Hunter Broombush Mallee Shrubland
  - 3772 Western Hunter Caleys Ironbark Low Forest
  - 3773 Western Hunter Currawang Low Forest
  - 3774 Western Hunter Dwyers Red Gum-Pine Woodland
  - 3775 Western Hunter Escarpment Ironbark Forest
  - 3777 Western Hunter Grey Gum Sheltered Forest
  - 3778 Western Hunter Grey Gum-Stringybark Forest
  - 3782 Western Hunter Rockplate Micromyrtus Heath
  - 3783 Western Hunter Rocky Sandstone Ironbark Forest
  - 3784 Western Hunter Rocky Scrub
  - 3786 Western Hunter Scribbly Gum-Pine Woodland
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Forested wetlands
- Eastern Riverine Forests
  - 1127 Sandstone cliff-face soak

Freshwater wetlands
- Coastal Heath Swamps
  - 3894 Blue Mountains Creekline Shrub Swamp
  - 3929 Blue Mountains Swamp Heath
  - 3920 Coastal Clifftop Shrubby Marsh
  - 3916 Sandstone Cliff Soak
  - 3917 Shoalhaven Lowland Heath
  - 3923 Sydney Coastal Sandstone Creekline Swamp Heath
  - 3924 Sydney Coastal Upland Swamp Heath
  - 3925 Sydney Sandstone Button Grass Sedgeland
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- Montane Bogs and Fens
  - 3945 Newnes Plateau Shrub Swamp

Grassy woodlands
- Coastal Valley Grassy Woodlands
  - 3321 Cumberland Shale-Sandstone Ironbark Forest
- Southern Tableland Grassy Woodlands
  - 703 Blakely's Red Gum - Yellow Box - Rough-barked Apple grassy woodland of the Capertee Valley, Sydney Basin Bioregion

Heathlands
- Sydney Coastal Heaths
  - 3807 Northern Sydney Heath-Mallee
  - 3808 Northern Sydney Sandstone Rockplate Shrubland
  - 3809 Shoalhaven Rockplate Heath
  - 3810 Southern Sydney Rockplate Heath
  - 3813 Sydney Hinterland Dwarf Apple Low Woodland
  - 3814 Woronora Plateau Heath-Mallee
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- Sydney Montane Heaths
  - 636 Allocasuarina nana heathland at Genowlan Point, Sydney Basin Bioregion
  - 3857 Blue Mountains Rocky Mallee Heath
  - 3859 Genowlan Point Heath
  - 3862 Newnes Plateau Rockplate Heath
  - 3690 Southern Highlands Sandstone Rockplate Heath
  - 3863 Upper Blue Mountains Mallee Heath
  - 3865 Western Blue Mountains Pagoda Scrub
  - 3866 Wollemi Rockplate Scrub
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Miscellaneous ecosystems
- Caves, rock fissures etc
  - 99991 Caves, rock fissures etc
- Rocky cliffs, major rock outcrops etc
  - 99993 Rocky cliffs, major rock outcrops etc

Rainforests
- Dry Rainforests
  - 3110 Greater Sydney Enriched Grey Myrtle Dry Rainforest
  - 3106 South Coast Grey Myrtle Dry Rainforest
- Northern Warm Temperate Rainforests
  - 3028 Illawarra Escarpment Warm Temperate Rainforest
  - 3037 Sydney Basin Warm Temperate Rainforest
  - 3041 Sydney Sandstone Coachwood-Grey Myrtle Rainforest
  - 3043 Upper Blue Mountains Gully Rainforest

Wet sclerophyll forests (grassy sub-formation)
- Northern Hinterland Wet Sclerophyll Forests
  - 3259 Sydney Coastal Shale-Sandstone Forest
  - 3261 Sydney Sandstone Plateau Shale Forest
  - 3262 Sydney Turpentine Ironbark Forest
- Southern Lowland Wet Sclerophyll Forests
  - 3266 Nattai-Morton Sandstone Peppermint Gully Forest
  - 3267 Shoalhaven Foothills Turpentine Forest
  - 3268 Shoalhaven Foothills Turpentine-Ironbark Moist Forest
  - 3270 Shoalhaven Lowland Wet Gully Forest

Wet sclerophyll forests (shrubby sub-formation)
- North Coast Wet Sclerophyll Forests
  - 3125 Illawarra Seacliff Banksia-Bangalay Forest

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