Plagiobryoides orbiculatifolia (Cardot & Broth.) Ochyra & Bedn.

Spence, John R., 2022, Studies in Austral Bryaceae (Bryopsida). IV. New records from the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), with a phytogeographic analysis of the family, Cryptogamie, Bryologie 20 (15), pp. 211-224 : 215

Plagiobryoides orbiculatifolia (Cardot & Broth.) Ochyra & Bedn. -Ochyra

RECORDED ON THE FALKLAND ISLANDS AS. — Bryum orbiculatifolium Cardot & Broth.

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This species was previously recorded by Larraín et al. (2016), and has an unusual distribution, found in southern South America, South Georgia, Heard Island, Antarctica, and Tristan da Cunha. A south temperate/South America species, occasionally penetrating to subantarctic South Georgia ( Ochyra et al. 2002) and the maritime Antarctic where it occurs on volcanic islands in the South Sandwich Islands and on Deception Island in the South Shetland Islands archipelagoes and only once recorded in the continental Antarctic in the Schirmacher Oasis ( Ochyra & Singh 2008; Ochyra et al. 2008a, b). A southern hemisphere/southern amphiatlantic temperate species.