 "Montivipera bornmuelleri" is found in high mountain areas in Israel, Lebanon, and Syria.The original syntypes of "M. bornmuelleri" were collected in Lebanon at 1800 m (5,900 ft) and in the Bolkar mountains of western Turkey at 2200 m (7,200 ft) as described by Franz Werner in 1898.In 1922, Werner restricted the type locality to Lebanon in his designation of his specimen as a lectotype, and in 1938 separated out the southern varieties as a separate species ("Daboia palaestinae").