* Gemmabryum dichotomum (Hedw.) J.R.Spence & H.P.Ramsay

SPECIMEN EXAMINED. — New Caledonia. South Province, ascend from the south to Mont Humboldt, around the mountain hut below the summit, 21°53’S, 66°25’E, on open soil, c. 1400 m, 30.VIII.2003, Müller NC866 (DR).

COMMENTS

Gemmabryum dichotomum ( Bryum dichotomum Hedw.) is a nearly cosmopolitan species with the nearest known records in Australia (e.g. Spence & Ramsay 2019). In New Caledonia the species was found on the man-made substrate around a much-visited mountain hut.