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Acknowledgements
L. T. Ellis acknowledges the support of the Natural History Museum, London. D. Gupta, K. K. Rawat, V. Sahu and A. K. Asthana are grateful to the Director, CSIR-National Botanical Research Institute, Lucknow, for encouragement and providing facilities. Thanks are also due to authorities of Forest Department of Govind Wild Life Sanctuary, Uttarakhand, for their help during a visit to the area. The study by O. M. Afonina was carried out within the framework of the institutional research project AAAA-A18-1180222090078-2 ('Herbarium collections of BIN RAS history, conservation, investigation and replenishment') of Komarov Botanical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and supported by RFBR (grant number 16-04-11156). The work of D. Ya. Tubanova and O. D. Dugarova was conducted in the framework of the Institution research project # AAAA-A17-117011810036-3 and was supported in part by RFBR (18-04-00822, 18-04-01068). The research by P. Drapela, J. R. Flores and G. M. Suárez was sponsored by the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), the Program PICT (0810) and PIUNT (G631) from Argentina.
The contributions by H. Bednarek-Ochyra have been financially supported through the statutory fund of the W. Szafer Institute of Botany of the Polish Academy of Sciences. She is also thankful to the Curator at ALTA for the loan of the herbarium material. The contribution of V. Plášek is part of research projects of 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'. The field work of M. Lebouvier on Îles Crozet was organised within the programme 136 ECOBIO of the French Polar Institute (IPEV). D. K. Singh and S. Majumdar thank the Director, Botanical Survey of India, Kolkata, for the facilities and financial assistance to SM 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. They also thank Dr Anders Hagborg, Field Museum, Chicago, and Dr Phiangphak Sukkharak, Burapha University, Thailand, for the help with relevant literature. The contribution by E. Ruiz, P. Aymerich, L. Sáez and M. Brugués was financially supported by Cadí Moixeró Natural Park; these authors thank Dr Lars Hedenäs for confirming one of the specimens of Cratoneuron curvicaule and Dr Marta Infante for providing information on the species’ distribution in the French Pyrenees. The research of I. Jukonienė and M. Subkaitė was funded by a grant (LIP-100/2016) from the Research Council of Lithuania. The work by G. E. Lee and N. Norhazrina was supported financially by Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia (FRGS/1/2017/STG03/UKM/02/2) and Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (GGPM-2017-090). 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). They thank Len Ellis (BM) for the determination of Squamidium brasiliense. S. Ştefănuţ acknowledges the support of project no. RO1567-IBB03/2018 through the Institute of Biology Bucharest of Romanian Academy. The work of G. Doroshina was supported by the institutional research project of Komarov Botanical Institute Flora and systematics of lichens and bryophytes of Russia and phytogeographically important regions. The contribution of V. Fedosov was supported by RSF 18-14-00121.