Flora of the South Sandwich Islands

This is a list of the flora of the South Sandwich Islands, a group of islands in the subantarctic Atlantic Ocean, part of the British overseas territory of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. The list contains flora in the strict sense; that is, plants only. It comprises a single species of vascular plant, 38 mosses, and 11 liverworts. Unusually, not a single species is known to have naturalised on the islands; all are presumed native.

The islands also contain 5 species of fungus, 41 lichens and 16 diatoms.

## Contents

* 1 Vascular plants
* 2 Mosses
* 3 Liverworts
* 4 References

## Vascular plants

* Deschampsia antarctica

## Mosses

* Andreaea gainii
* Andreaea regularis
* Anisothecium hookeri
* Bartramia patens
* Bracythecium austrosalebrosum
* Bracythecium fuegianum
* Bracythecium glaciale
* Bryum argenteum
* Bryum dichotomum
* Bryum orbiculatifolium
* Bryum pseudomicron
* Bryum pseudotriquetrum
* Campylopus introflexus
* Campylopus spiralis
* Ceratodon purpureus
* Dicranella hilariana
* Dicranoweisia brevipes
* Dicranoweisia grimmiacea
* Ditrichum gemmiferum
* Ditrichum heteromallum
* Ditrichum hyalinum
* Ditrichum lewis-smithii
* Hennediella antarctica
* Kiaeria pumila
* Notoligotrichum trichodon
* Pohlia drummondii
* Pohlia nutans
* Polytrichastrum alpinum
* Polytrichum juniperinum
* Polytrichum piliferum
* Polytrichum strictum
* Racomitrium orthotrichaceum
* Racomitrium sudeticum
* Sanionia georgico-uncinata
* Sanionia uncinata
* Schizymenium austrogeorgicum
* Syntrichia filaris
* Syntrichia princeps

## Liverworts

* Cephalozia badia
* Cephaloziella varians
* Clasmatocolea rigens
* Cryptochila grandiflora
* Lepidozia chordulifera
* Lophocoela lenta
* Lophozia chordulifera
* Marchantia berteroana
* Pachyglossa dissitifolia
* Riccardia georgiensis
* Triandrophyllum subtrifidum

## References

* Convey, P. (2000). "The flora of the South Sandwich Islands, with particular reference to the influence of geothermal heating". Journal of Biogeography 27 (6): 1279–1295. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2699.2000.00512.x. Bibcode: 2000JBiog..27.1279C.

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