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Acknowledgements
H. Kürschner cordially thanks Claudia Bührig (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Orient-Abteilung) and Reinder Neef (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Zentrale, Referat Naturwissenschaften) for the opportunity to join the field trip to Umm Qays/Gadara. The help of Mohammad Malkawi [Royal Society for Conservation of Nature (RSCN), Reserve Manager, Yarmouk Nature Reserve] for permissions and help during the field work is gratefully acknowledged. The contributions by F. Lara, I. Draper and R. Garilleti were supported by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (CGL2016-80772-P). T. A. Hedderson is grateful to the National Research Foundation of South Africa for their continued financial support, to the ANR research project MOVECLIM (ANR-11-EBIM-007-01) under the Net-Biome transnational programme, for supporting fieldwork on Réunion and Tahiti, to Jean-Yves Meyer, Ravahere Taputuarai, Claudine Ah-Peng and Oliver Flores for field assistance and companionship on Tahiti, and to Dr. W. R. Buck for his continual willingness to identify or verify specimens of pleurocarps. K. K. Rawat, Dayanidhi Gupta, Vinay Sahu and A. K. Asthana thank The Director, CSIR-NBRI, Lucknow, for providing the necessary facilities. Their work was funded under the project BSC-0106 by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi, India. Additionally, V. Sahu, P. Katiyar and A. K. Asthana are grateful to the authorities of Manipur Forest Department, Manipur, for providing permission and facilities to visit the area. Financial support, from IBSD, Imphal (Manipur), India, under project no. GAP 3397 is also thankfully acknowledged.
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 BM and UBC for arranging the specimens on loan. The field work of M. Leboubier on Îles Crozet was organised within the programme 136 ECOBIO of the French Polar Institute (IPEV). The contribution by V. Plášek is part of research projects of the Institute of Environmental Technologies, reg. No. CZ.1.05/2.1.00/03.0100, the National Feasibility Programme I of the Czech Republic Project LO1208 and MSK projects supporting Czech-Chinese cooperation, nos. 00955/RRC/2015 and 01211/RRC/2016. The work of M. Sulayman was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 31660052, 31460048). Yoon Young-Jun, Seung Jin Park and Byung-Yun Sun would like to express our deepest gratitude to the late Dr Benito C. Tan for correcting the English text and valuable suggestions. G. Asthana and A. Srivastava are thankful to the Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi, for the financial assistance and to the Head, Botany Department, Lucknow University, Lucknow, for providing necessary facilities. The work of G. Ya. Doroshina and I. V. Czernyadjeva was carried out within the framework of the institutional research project (no. 01201255616) of the Komarov Botanical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. R. D. Porley warmly thanks Juan Jiménez for confirming the identity of the Picos (Serra de Monchique) Bryoerythrophyllum inaequalifolium.
Dr M. Philippe thanks Ariel Bergamini and Ryszard Ochyra who kindly helped to prepare his notes. S. Ştefănuţ acknowledges the support of project no. RO1567-IBB03/2017 through the Institute of Biology Bucharest of Romanian Academy. The research of G. M. Suárez, J. R. Flores and J. Muñoz was sponsored by the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), the Program PICT (1838 and 0810) and PIUNT G524 from Argentina. The material-gathering campaign of E. Fuertes and his stay in Argentina was sponsored by the Project AECI A/8930/2007 of the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The contribution by F. Lara, N. Lönnell and T. Hallingbäck was funded by the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency and the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (CGL2016-80772-P). P. Erzberger, Cs. Németh, K. Baráth and A. Mesterházy wish to thank Norbert Schnyder, Zürich, for examining a specimen of Sematophyllum adnatum.
J. Bruno Silva, C. Emanuely de Araújo Farias and S. Rangel Germano thank SISBio who granted permission (under number 5305-4 in March 2016) to collect for scientific purposes in Biological Reserve Guaribas and to the State University of Paraíba for financial and structural support to their research.
Taxonomic Additions and Changes: Nil.