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J. Váňa and K. K. Newsham are grateful for the logistics support provided by the British Antarctic Survey’s Operations Group, officers and crew of the RRS Ernest Shackleton and staff at King Edward Point research station. Funding was provided by the Natural Environment Research Council. All are gratefully acknowledged. The work of M. J. Cano has been carried out with financial support of the Spanish government (projects CGL2012-30721 and CGL2010-15959 co-financed by FEDER). G. Asthana, S. Yadav, and S. Srivastava are thankful to Ministry of Environment & Forests, New Delhi for financial Assistance. J. van Rooy would like to thank Ida Bruggeman-Nannenga for information on the distribution of Fissidens ovatus. The research of M. V. Dulin was performed under the financial support of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (project no. 12-04-01476-a) and by the Program of UB RAS ‘Living Nature’, project No. 12-P-4-1018 ‘Specific, cenotic and ecosystem diversity of landscapes in the UNESCO World Heritage Site “Virgin Komi Forests”’. Ryszard Ochyra thanks Len Ellis, the Curator at BM, for the loan of a specimen of Bryum from Brazil and Julian Bayliss acknowledges Allan Bayliss and Malaika Sacranie as collectors of specimens. The National Geographic Society Waitt Grant generously provided funding for the field work, without which the expedition may not have taken place. The African Butterfly Research Institute also helped with funding, and with logistical support. The contributions by R. Ochyra have been financially supported by the National Centre of Science through grant no. 2 P04G 043 29. The field work of R. Ochyra and Marc Lebouvier on Îles Crozet and Îles Kerguelen was organized within the programme 136 ECOBIO of the French Polar Institute (IPEV), the logistic support for the field work of R. Ochyra and V. R. Smith on the Prince Edward Islands was obtained from the South African Department of Environmental affairs and Tourism. F. Puche and M. Brugués acknowledge funds from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (project CGL2009-09530, Flora Briofítica Ibérica). J. G. Segarra-Moragues benefited from a Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation ‘Ramón y Cajal’ postdoctoral contract. The research of E. Fuertes was funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, Project: Ref. CGL2009-13622. A. Schäfer-Verwimp thanks J.-P. Frahm, Germany, for the identification of Campylopus trichophylloides. S. Ştefănuţ is grateful to Beata Papp for research support from the HU-TAF-1722 of the SYNTHESYS Project (http://www.synthesys.info/), which is financed by European Community Research Infrastructure Action under the FP7 ‘Capacities’ Program. E. Fudali thanks Professor Ryszard Ochyra who confirmed the determination of Schistidium agassizi and gave helpful advice, and Dr Heribert Köckinger for information on the distribution of Schistidium agassizii in Austria.

Taxonomic Additions and changes: Nil.