liverwurst

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An "extinction crisis" is happening in Britain's temperate rainforests where some of the world's rarest mosses, lichens and liverworts are vanishing, ecologists have warned.

From BBC • May 18, 2025

“If I were to make a prediction, I would envisage a growing fraction of the Peninsula’s landscape becoming dominated by a mosaic ecosystem of mosses, lichens, liverworts and fungi,” Roland said.

From Salon • Oct. 19, 2024

The scientists also found that the function was conserved in several early land plants, like liverworts and mosses.

From Science Daily • May 17, 2024

Jander and Boyce Thompson fern biologist Fay-Wei Li, for example, are looking into defense compounds of primitive plants called liverworts.

From Science Magazine • Nov. 16, 2023

In liverworts this preliminary phase of the sexual generation is as a rule ill-marked or absent, and the plant may be said to develop directly from the spore.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" by Various