Hugh Neville Dixon (1861-1944) described over a thousand new species and varieties of mosses, from all parts of the world.   His herbarium is held in The Natural History Museum London (BM) and a project is underway to document Dixon's type specimens. As an interim measure, some of this information is being added to this website, as scans are made of his type specimens.   It is expected that this part-time project will take a number of years.

Between 1884 and 1943 he published around 230 papers. In 1903 he visited Norway, and in the following year the Alps, and from this time on he took an increasing interest in 'exotic' (i.e. non-European) bryophytes, and was sent collections mainly from non-bryologists collecting in their spare time from both the tropics and temperate regions (e.g. South America, Japan and Australasia).   From these he described a large number of new genera, species and varieties (not yet counted). His last paper was on New Guinea, but his final posthumous paper appeared in 1960, on Tristan da Cunha.

Details of his new species are being added species by species, largely in alphabetic order. As each letter is completed, the number of taxa is added in the line below.

Select the first letter of the genus name:

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