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Acknowledgements

L. T. Ellis acknowledges the support of The Natural History Museum, London (BM). D. Shyriaieva thanks the administration of the National Nature Park Buzkyi Gard and Denys Vynokurov for their substantial help in collecting samples. The field work in the study was particulary supported by The Rufford Foundation (project ID 27637-1). The work of G. Gospodinov was supported by the Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Science under 249 the National Research Programme ‘Young scientists and postdoctoral students’ approved by 250 DCM no. 577/17.08.2018. Esther Fuertes and Juan Larraín thank Jörn Hentschel for confirming the identity of the Tierra del Fuego specimen of Frullania glomerata. E. Fuertes' research is funded by projects AECI, A-3818-2005, A-6307-2006 y A- 8930-2007 of the Science and Innovation Ministry of Spain. J. Larraín's research is funded by CONICYT postdoctoral grant 3160556. Staff at PC is acknowledged for providing working space and full access to collections to JL. We thank Argentine National Parks for providing collecting permits to E. Fuertes. Pedro Drapela and Juan Larraín thank the staff at Altos de Cantillana Natural Reserve for providing access and logistic support, especially to Fernanda and Ximena Romero, and María Jesús Cano for confirming the identity of some of our specimens.

B. Mufeed, C.N. Manju and K.P. Rajesh thank Dr Christine Cargill, Australian National Herbarium, Australia; Dr. Devendra Singh, Botanical Survey of India, Kolkata and Dr A.K. Asthana CSIR-National Botanical Research Institute, Lucknow for confirming some of our collections. We acknowledge the help given by the officials of Kerala Forest Department for providing permission to collect bryophyte specimens from the forests of Anamudi Shola National Park. N. Norhazrina and N. Syazwana would like to thank Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia for supporting this research project through Geran Universiti Penyelidikan (GUP-2018-016 and GGPM-2017-090), and thank L.T. Ellis (BM) for confirming the identity of their collection of Calymperes. The work of S. S. Choi, V. A. Bakalin and S. J. Park was supported by the grant ‘National ecosystem Survey’ from the National Institute of Ecology, while that of S. S. Choi, V. A. Bakalin and C. W. Hyun was supported by the grant ‘Biological Diversity Survey of the Flora of Korean Bryophyta (NIBR201902104)’ from the National Institute of Biological Resources of Ministry of Environment in Korea to C. W. Hyun. Laboratory work of S. S Choi was also supported by the grant ‘National ecosystem Survey’ from the National Institute of Ecology. The study by Yu. M. Kalinina and O. M. Afonina was funded by RFBR, project number 19-34-90033. The work of V. Fedosov was supported by RSF Grant 18-14-00121. T. A. Hedderson is grateful to the National Research Foundation of South Africa for their continued financial support, and to the Himalayan Wildlife Project for their logistical support in Pakistan. The contribution of E. Hernández-Rodríguez and A. P. Peña-Retes is part of the project ‘Effect of forest management on two contrasting groups: mosses and medium and large mammals, Sierra Norte, Oaxaca, Mexico’ supported by Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología, Mexico (ID 595991) and The Sigma Xi Grant-in-Aid of Research (ID G201603152071095) through scholarships to E. Hernández-Rodríguez. The work of I. V. Czernyadjeva was supported by Russian Foundation for Basic Research (grants # 18-05-60093) and it was carried out within the framework of the institutional research project (no. АААА-А19-119020690077-4) of the Komarov Botanical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. V. Hugonnot thanks Cecilia Sérgio for checking his collections from France. The work of G. Gospodinov and R. Natcheva was supported by The Bulgarian National Science Fund, project ‘Cryptic species in Bulgarian flora—molecular species delimitation in the Aneura pinguis complex’. Priyanshu Srivastava, Ichha Omar and A. K. Asthana are thankful to The Director, CSIR- National Botanical Research Institute, Lucknow for encouragement and providing the facilities. Thanks are also due to the Department of Biotechnology, New Delhi for providing financial assistance. S. Ştefănuţ, G. Tamas, C.-C. Bîrsan, G.-R. Nicoară and M. C. Ion acknowledge the support by project no. RO1567-IBB03/2020 through Institute of Biology Bucharest of Romanian Academy. A. V. Shkurko was supported by governmental contract 118021490111-5 of Tsitsin Main Botanical Garden.

The contribution by Beata Cykowska-Marzencka has been financially supported by the statutory fund of the W. Szafer Institute of Botany of the Polish Academy of Sciences. The field research in 2017 leading to her results has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 project INTERACT, under grant agreement No 730938. The laboratory analyses were financed by National Science Centre in Poland (research project No. 2017/27/N/ST10/00862). The work of Paulina Wietrzyk-Pełka was supported by Etiuda project of the National Science Centre in Poland (research project No. 2019/32/T/ST10/00182).

M. Kırmacı, G. Aslan and U. Çatak give many thanks to Aydın Adnan Menderes University's scientific research project department (BAP) for supporting their research (FEF 18018) and to Dr Metin Armağan (Adnan Menderes University) for helping during their field trip.