* Ptychostomum gayanum (Mont. ex Müll.Hal.) Ochyra & Bedn. -Ochyra

SPECIMENS EXAMINED. — Falkland Islands. West Falkland, Crooked Inlet, Roy Cove, 51°32’56.4”S, 60°23’6”W, in pasture with gorse, 15 m a.s.l., 17.I.2011, 11/281 (MNH); East Falkland, Mt. Kent, east of gate at summit, 51°40’26.4”S, 58°6’25.2”W, on ground in flush, 432 m a.s.l., 20.I.2015, 15/54 (MNH).

NOTES

Common in Tierra del Fuego and on Îles Kerguelen but also extending north to south-central Chile (Müller 2009). It is an autoicous species related to Ptychostomum pseudotriquetrum (Hedw.) J.R.Spence & H.P.Ramsay ex Holyoak & N.Pedersen, but with a reduced peristome and larger spores. A southern hemisphere/South American temperate-subantarctic (Îles Kerguelen only) species.