on collections made by two Japan-Malaysia collaborative expeditions held in 1997.
Although our research centered mainly on moss flora, some hepatics were also collected. A
total of 40 families, 111 genera and 203 species of mosses, as well as 18 families, 25
genera and 31 species of hepatics were found among our collections. Twenty-five species
were new to Kinabalu National Park or Sabah, 17 of which were new to Borneo Island.