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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the Natural History Museum, London (BM). The contributions by H. Bednarek-Ochyra have been financed through the statutory fund of the W. Szafer Institute of Botany of the Polish Academy of Sciences. She is also thankful to the curators at AD, AK, BM, BR, CHR, EGR, FH, H, JE, NY, PC and WELT for organising the loan of specimens. The field work of M. Lebouvier on Îles Crozet was organised within the programme 136 ECOBIO of the French Polar Institute (IPEV). E. Ginzburg thanks Dr Alexey Potemkin for various help and support. The study was carried out within the framework of the institutional research project 01201255616 of the Komarov Botanical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences and partly supported by the Program of Basic Research of the Presidium of RAS ‘Wildlife: Current Status and Problems of Development’ (subprogramme: ‘Biodiversity: state and dynamics’). Neil Bell thanks David Long for facilitating the study of his uniquely valuable bryophyte collections from the Sino-Himalayan region. The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh is supported by the Scottish Government’s Rural and Environment Science and Analytical Services Division. During 2017 we are also grateful for the support of players of People’s Postcode Lottery towards our scientific research. K. K. Rawat, V. Sahu and A. K. Asthana are grateful to the Director, CSIR-NBRI for kindly providing necessary facilities. One of us (KKR) acknowledges the financial support from SAC, ISRO, Ahmedabad, India under project GAP-3329 titled ‘Alpine ecosystem dynamics and impact of climate change in Indian Himalaya (PRACRITI-II). The bryophyte survey by M. Infante and C. Hannoire was part of the programme Support to the emergent Natural Reserves and Regional Natural Parks by Région Occitanie (Ancienne Région Midi-Pyrénées) with support from the European Union. Rémi Lafitte (RNR Aulon) is thanked for his help during this survey, and Lars Söderström (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim) kindly provided a reference specimen for identification. The work of Y.-J. Yoon and J. H. Kim was supported by the Korea Polar Research Institute (PE17090). O. M. Afonina and E. V. Kushnevskay are grateful to M. Higuchi for confirming the identification of the specimen of Hypnum callichroum from Leningrad Province. The research by O. M. Afonina was partly supported by RFBR (project no. 16-04-01156), the research of E. V. Kushnevskay by RSF (project no. 15-14-10023). The contribution of Roger Andriamiarisoa, Des Callaghan and Catherine Reeb was made under LAbex BCDIV RICCIA, supported by French state funds managed by ANR within the Investissements d’Avenir Program (reference ANR-11-IDEX-0004-02), with fieldwork authorised by The Malagasy General Directorate of Forests and Tananarivo University Department of Plant Biology (79/16/MEEMF/SG/DGF/DAPT/SCBT.re). Des Callaghan would like to thank Jiří Váňa for confirming the identification of Cylindrocolea kiaeri, Tamás Pócs for the identification of Notoscyphus lutescens and Anders Hagborg for helping to provide background literature. Catherine Reeb would like to thank Rob Gradstein for helping to confirm the identification of Jensenia spinosa and Symphyogyna podophylla.

The contributions of Vítězslav Plášek and Zuzana Skoupá were financially supported by EU structural funding Operational Programme Research and Development for Innovation, project No. CZ.1.05/2.1.00/19.0388 and by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic in the ‘National Feasibility Program I’, project LO1208 ‘TEWEP’, MSK projects supporting Czech-Chinese cooperation, no. 00955/RRC/2015 and 01211/RRC/2016, and SYNTHESYS project GB-TAF-6565. The contribution of I. Jukonienė was in connection with the long-term programme of the Nature Research Centre ‘Research and projections into the status and change of Lithuanian nature and biological resources, scientific justification of conservation, restoration and sustainable use’. J. Eckstein, J. Nagy and P. Erzberger wish to thank Ludwig Meinunger and Wiebke Schröder, Germany, for examining the specimens of Sciuro-hypnum curtum. The contribution by Beata Cykowska-Marzencka was financially supported by the statutory fund of the W. Szafer Institute of Botany of the Polish Academy of Sciences, and the contribution by Michał Węgrzyn was financially supported by the statutory fund of the Institute of Botany, Jagiellonian University. D. K. Singh and Shuvadeep Majumdar thank the Director, Botanical Survey of India, Kolkata for facilities and financial assistance to S.M. under the ‘Flora of India’ project, and the authorities of State Forest Department, Govt. of Arunachal Pradesh for facilitating the field work and logistic support.

Taxonomic Additions and Changes: Nil.