Buxbaumia

/bʌksbɔːˈmiːə/ noun

A genus of small mosses distinguished by their unusual leaf and spore structures.

Named after Johann Christian Buxbaum, an 18th-century German botanist and naturalist, with the Latinized -ia suffix used in genus names.

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