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.This species was described and illustrated in revisions of Anomobryum Schimp.for Europe and Asia by Holyoak & Köckinger (2010) and for Russia by Czernyadjeva et al. (2015).It is characterised by an acuminate leaf apex, mostly excurrent costa, rectangular to long rectangular basal cells in the leaves, often with 1-3 rows of much narrower marginal cells, and numerous reddish-brown bulbils in the leaf axils with leaf primordia mostly confined to the upper half.Anomobryum bavaricum occurs mainly in mountainous areas, often as a pioneer colonist, preferring calcareous rocky outcrops.In North Osetiya its shoots were collected on bare soil with Bryum argenteum Hedw.2. Barbula convoluta Hedw.