Calymperes venezuelanum,a Newly Discovered American-African Disjunct Element in the Flora of Madagascar

Pohlia Chilensis (Mniaceae), an Afro-American Moss

“…In fact, only four out of the approximately 127 species (Shaw 2006) Pohlia chilensis has been considered an endemic species of Central and South America, being known from Guatemala to the Andean regions of Peru, Bolivia and Chile, but it is here reported from Africa. This distribution pattern is well known for other hepatic and moss species (Buck & Griffin 1984;Delgadillo 1993;Orba ´n 2000).…”

Ephemerum homomallum (Pottiaceae) and Torrentaria aquatica (Brachytheciaceae), Two Additional American Moss Species New to Africa

“…As the taxonomy of African and Neotropical bryophytes has become better known and the exploration of understudied areas has progressed, more species are increasingly found to occur on both continents. These are mostly lowland and montane tropical mosses (e.g., Arts, 1998;Bednarek-Ochyra et al, 1999;Buck & Griffin, 1984;Ellis et al, 2013Ellis et al, , 2014Ellis et al, , 2016Ochyra et al, 1992;Ochyra & Ireland, 2016;Orbán, 2000;Porley & Edwards, 2010;Shaw et al, 2008). This type of distribution is also exhibited by a small group of austral cool-adapted mosses, which occur in the temperate regions of southern South America and extend to southern Africa and African islands in the Southern Ocean, or both (e.g., Bednarek-Ochyra, 2014;Bednarek-Ochyra et al, 1996;Bednarek-Ochyra & Ochyra, 1998, 2012a, 2012bBlockeel et al, 2009Blockeel et al, , 2010Li et al, 2009;Ochyra, 2010;Ochyra, Bednarek-Ochyra, & Lewis Smith, 2002;Ochyra & Bell, 1984;Ochyra & Lewis Smith, 1998;Ochyra & Lightowlers, 1988).…”

New national and regional bryophyte records, 33

“…Broth. ex Pittier (Orbán, 2000), and Plagiothecium lucidum (Hook.f. & Wilson) Paris (Ochyra et al, 2000).…”