“…Nomenclature follows O'Shea (1995) for mosses, and Wigginton & Grolle (1996) (Arnell, 1963), the latter locality overlooked in Wigginton & Grolle (1996) Porley 678a,683c,686a,703a. This species was recently reported new to Africa (Kis, 1996). It was previously known from only a single collection from the Bolivian Andes, described in 1916, and thus thought to be an Andean endemic.…”