Published by Maney Publishing (c) British Bryological Society Sharma D, Srivastava, SC. 1993. Indian Lepidoziineae – (A taxonomic revision). Bryophytorum Bibliotheca 47: 1–353. Singh DK. 2001. Diversity in Indian liverworts: their status, vulner- ability and conservation. In: Nath V, Asthana AK, eds. Perspectives in Indian Bryology. Bishen Singh Mahendra Pal Singh, Dehra Dun, 325–354. Stephani F. 1906–1909. Species Hepaticarum. Geneve et Bale, III, 1– 693. DEVENDRA K. SINGH, Botanical Survey of India, C.G.O. Complex, 3rd MSO Building, Block F (5th floor), Salt Lake Sector I, Kolkata 700064, India. singh_drdk@rediffmail.com DEVENDRA SINGH, Botanical Survey of India, Central National Herbarium, Howrah – 711 103, India. New national and regional bryophyte records, 19 Intending contributors to this column should consult the Instructions for Authors in part 1 of this volume, and should address their contributions to the column editor. 1. Anomodon rostratus (Hedw.) Schimp. Contributor: O ¨ zlem Tonguc ¸ Yayintas ¸ Turkey: ADANA: Pozanti, Sekerpinari, Hayat spring water, 36u25928.9599N, 34u52936.4399E, 675 m a.s.l., trees on bark, 23 April 2000, leg. O ¨ zlem Tonguc ¸ Yayintas ¸ T 849 (MO; herbarium of C ¸ anakkale Onsekiz Mart University). Anomodon rostratus is an addition to the three species of Anomodon listed for Turkey by Ku ¨ rschner and Erdag (2005). It is a circumboreal montane species distributed in central Europe (Germany south to Spain, east to Italy and Romania), Caucasus (Georgia), North America (Newfoundland to Mexico, west to Arizona and British Columbia), Guatemala, Jamaica, Haiti and Bermuda (Granzow-De la Cerda, 1997). The nearest localities to Turkey for Anomodon rostratus are in Syria and Iran (Ku ¨ rschner, 2006). Pozanti is located in the Middle Taurus Mountains, which are the westernmost branch of the great Himalayan mountain chain. The area has a climate transitional between that of Central Anatolia and the Mediterranean Region. 2. Asterella gracilis (F.Weber) Underw. Contributor: David G. Long China: YUNNAN PROVINCE: Gongshan County, Bingzhongluo Xiang, east slope of Gaoligong Shan, Nu Jiang (Salween) catchment, valley on S.W. slope of Gawagapu Mountain, 27u59916.899N, 98u28927.499E, alpine valley with rocky slopes and cliffs above snow patch; under fern clumps on wet scree slope, 3940 m, 20 August 2006, D.G. Long 35918-a (E). Long (2006) revised the world distribution of Asterella gracilis, confirming it in Asia from Russia (Siberia), Iran, India (Jammu & Kashmir) and Japan (Hokkaido, Honshu). This constitutes a new record for China. The plant was found in small quantity, with immature carpocephala but showing the very characteristic pseudoperianth divided to the base, with the lobes flat and becoming free at the apex. It was mixed with an as yet unidentified sterile member of Cleveaceae. The alpine habitat accords closely with its known ecology in Europe and North America (Long, 2006). 3. Austrofossombronia australis (Mitt.) R.M.Schust. Contributors: J. Va ´n ˇa, R. Ochyra, B. Cykowska and H. Bednarek-Ochyra I ˆ les Crozet: I ˆ LE DE LA POSSESSION: (1) by road to Rivie `re du Camp, north of the Alfred Faure base, 80 m a.s.l., 46u259S, 51u509E, on bare ground on the escarpment overgrown with Blechnum penna-marina, 9 November 2006, leg. R. Ochyra 24C (KRAM, PRC); (2) Baie du Marin, steep cliff overlooking Crique du Navire, north-east of the Alfred Faure base, 46u259S, 51u509E, on spots of bare moist soil in grassland dominated with Poa cookii,9 November 2006, leg. R. Ochyra 49B (KRAM, PRC). Austrofossombronia australis is apparently an Australasian-Kerguelenian subantarctic species. So far, it has been recorded only from Macquarie Island (Schuster, 1994), Heard Island (Va ´n ˇa & Gremmen, 2005) from where it was described as Fossombronia australis (Mitten, 1876) and I ˆ les Kerguelen (Grolle, 2002; Va ´n ˇ a & Gremmen, 2006). The species has also been reported from New Zealand and Australia, but Schuster (1994) questioned these records, whereas the plants so-named from the Prince Edward Islands he recognized as a separate species, A. marionensis R.M.Schust. Here, the range of this species is extended to I ˆ les Crozet, the next archipelago in the Kerguelenian Province of the Subantarctic. The plants are in fine fruiting condition and bear spherical sporangia and they are undoubtedly distinct from A. marionensis which has ellipsoid sporangia. 4. Bryum alpinum With. Contributors: J. Larrain and R. Ochyra Chile: X REGION: Palena Province, near Puerto Ca ´ rdenas, 43u1093099S, 72u2595799W, 45 m a.s.l., on gravel soil along the side of the road, 11 January 2004, leg. J. Larrain 17026 (CONC, KRAM). When considering its current range, Bryum alpinum cannot be designated a cosmopolitan species as interpreted by Dierßen (2001) since it is absent from huge areas of tropical Asia, Oceania, Australasia and Antarctica. It is a typical bipolar species, having a strongly discontinuous, Journal of Bryology (2008) 30: 231–237 Received 5 June 2008. Revision accepted 6 June 2008 # British Bryological Society 2008 DOI: 10.1179/174328208X300688 BRYOLOGICAL NOTES 231