''Dicranoweisia crispula'', the mountain pincushion, is a species of mosses that lives at both poles. It grows in the

South Shetland Islands The South Shetland Islands are a group of Antarctic islands with a total area of . They lie about north of the Antarctic Peninsula, and between southwest of the nearest point of the South Orkney Islands. By the Antarctic Treaty of 195 ...

and on the

Antarctic Peninsula The Antarctic Peninsula, known as O'Higgins Land in Chile and Tierra de San Martín in Argentina, and originally as Graham Land in the United Kingdom and the Palmer Peninsula in the United States, is the northernmost part of mainland Antarctic ...

References

The Antarctic mosses: with special reference to the South Shetland Islands
Bryopsida Flora of Antarctica {{bryophyte-stub