Acknowledgements
The fieldwork of N. J. M. Gremmen was financed by the South African National Research Foundation (grant no. SNA2011112200001) and supported logistically by the Department of Environment Affairs. J. Váňa and N. J. M. Gremmen thank Valdon Smith for his support in the field, and also thank L. Söderström (Trondheim) for the additional information concerning the distribution of Lophocolea semiteres.
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, supported by the ‘Research and Development for Innovations’ Operational Programme, and financed by the Structural Funds of the European Union and by the state budget of the Czech Republic. Jia-Dong Yang and Shan-Hsiung Lin thank Kui-Kun Wu who helped in field work, their study was supported in part by the grants of National Science Council (NSC 101-2621-B-329-001-) and the Council of Agriculture, Taiwan.
S. Ştefănuţ acknowledges the support by project no. RO1567-IBB03/2013 through Institute of Biology Bucharest of Romanian Academy. Terry Hedderson is grateful to Claudine Ah-Peng, Jacques Bardat, and Dominique Strasberg for making the fieldwork possible, and to Neil Bell and Jaakko Hyvonen for confirming the identification of Oligotrichum cavalii.
The contribution by B. Cykowska has been financially supported by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education through grant no. N N303 572038 and by the programme for Young Scientists and members of Doctoral Studies under the grant for 2013, and partly by the statutory fund of the W. Szafer Institute of Botany of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
The contributions by R. Ochyra have been financially supported by the National Centre of Science through grant no. 2 P04G 043 29 and, in part, by the statutory fund of the Institute of Botany of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Adam Stebel acknowledges the financial support from the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education through grant number NN 303 572038. Julian Bayliss acknowledges Allan Bayliss and Malaika Sacranie as collectors of specimens. The National Geographic Society Waitt Grant generously provided funding for his field work, without which the expedition may not have taken place and the African Butterfly Research Institute also helped with funding and with logistical support.
Taxonomic Additions and Changes: Nil.