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Eighteen species of hepatics and one moss are newly reported from Ecuador. New province records are listed for 70 bryophyte species. Notes on the geographical distribution and habitats of the species are provided. Range extension of the Bolivian/southern Peruvian Plagiochila buchtiniana to Ecuador is supported by phylogenetic analyses of nrITS sequences.