New national and regional bryophyte records, 54

Abstract

This is the first report of Anomobryum bavaricum for the Caucasus. Until recently, this species was considered endemic to the European Alps. It was known in Austria, Germany, Italy and Switzerland (Holyoak & Köckinger, 2010). Recently, it was reported for the first time for Asia from Zabaikalsky Territory, southern Siberia (Ellis et al., 2014a), and was later found in the Republic of Sakha/Yakutia and Primorsky Territory, Far East (Czernyadjeva et al., 2015). These records in Siberia and the Russian Far East confirm a highly disjunctive distribution of the species in Eurasia. Therefore, its presence in the Caucasus was quite predictable. In future, A. bavaricum may be found in the other regions of the Caucasus, especially in Dagestan, Chechnya, and Ingushetia.