Acknowledgements
M. J. Cano is grateful to J. Guerra for confirming the identity of the specimen of Timmia austriaca. The work was carried out with the financial support of Spanish government (project CGL2012-30721 co-financed by FEDER). Len Ellis is grateful to Dr Bill Buck (NY) for drawing attention to the specimen found to represent Syrrhopodon scalariformis and for arranging its loan to BM. The work of V. E. Fedosov was partly supported by Grant # 14-50-00029 “Scientific basis of the national biobank – depository of the living systems” (branch “Plants”) from Russian Science Foundation (RNF), and that of M. Kozhin and E. Ignatova was partly supported by RFBR Grant # 14-01-01424. S. Ştefănuţ acknowledges the support of project no. RO1567-IBB03/2015, received through the Institute of Biology Bucharest of Romanian Academy. J. B. Silva, E. M. Dias, S. R. Germano and N. Dias dos Santos are grateful to SISBio who granted them permission (under number 45504-1 in Ago 2014) to collect for scientific purposes in Parque Nacional Vale do Catimbau. A. K. Asthana, P. Srivastava and I. Omar are grateful to the Director, CSIR-NBRI, Lucknow (India) for encouragement and providing facilities. These authors thankfully acknowledge the Ministry of Environment, Forests & Climate Change, New Delhi for financial assistance. The contribution by V. Plášek is part of a research project of the Institute of Environmental Technologies, reg. no. CZ.1.05/2.1.00/03.0100, Project LO1208 of the National Feasibility Programme I of the Czech Republic and SYNTHESYS project DE-TAF-4436. J. Larraín, M. Suleiman, and M. von Konrat acknowledge Sabah Biodiversity for access permits and Sabah Parks for field assistance. Fieldwork was possible through National Science Foundation grants (Award Nos. 1115116, DEB1145898, DEB1146168). P. Saha, M.N. Aziz, and D. Maity are grateful to the director, Botanical Survey of India for encouragement and facilities.
The research of M. S. Jimenez and G. M. Suárez was supported by SGCyT (Project 12P002), PIUNT, PIP 0078, and PICT 1838. The authors thank the curators of herbaria for making available the samples studied in this research. K. K. Rawat, Vinay Sahu, and A. K. Asthana acknowledge financial support from ISRO, Ahmedabad, India, under project GAP-3329. The research of Y.-J. Yoon and B.-Y. Sun was supported by “Research Base Construction Fund Support Program” funded by Chonbuk National University in 2011. The contributions by R. Ochyra have been financially supported by the Polish National Centre of Science through grant No. N N 303 796 940 for Halina Bednarek-Ochyra and, partly, by the statutory fund of the Institute of Botany of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He is also thankful to the Curators at AK, PC and S for the loan of the herbarium material. The field work of R. Ochyra and Marc Lebouvier on Îles Crozet in 2012 was organised within the programme 136 ECOBIO of the French Polar Institute (IPEV). The contribution by I. Parnikoza gained the financial support of the National Antarctic Research Centre of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Ukraine and US National Science Foundation especially V. Papitashvili. He is also thankful to D. Pilipenko for assistance with field work. His research was part of the national targeted scientific and technological programme of research in the Antarctic for 2011–2020 and in accordance with an agreement on the scientific cooperation between the Polish Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences of the Ukraine under the project “Adaptive strategy of mutual survival of organisms in extreme environmental conditions” (2015–2017).
Taxonomic Additions and Changes: Nil.