Every category
Nine genus names, grouped by what kind of organism they belong to. Each one has a page for every spelling people reach for after hearing it.
Mosses
Cushion, turf and haircap mosses, whose genus names are Greek compounds that most people meet out loud before they ever see them written.
- polytrichum pol-ee-TRIK-um 12 spellings
- leucobryum loo-koh-BRY-um 9 spellings
- rhytidiadelphus rye-tid-ee-a-DEL-fus 12 spellings
Lichens
Reindeer lichen, tube lichen and tree moss: Greek names whose first letters are the ones the ear never hears.
- cladonia kla-DOH-nee-uh 8 spellings
- hypogymnia hy-poh-JIM-nee-uh 12 spellings
- pseudevernia soo-de-VER-nee-uh 9 spellings
Liverworts and hornworts
Two thallose liverworts and a field hornwort, carrying a French surname, a Latin diminutive and a Greek horn between them.
- marchantia mar-KAN-tee-uh, often mar-KAN-sha 8 spellings
- lunularia loon-yoo-LAIR-ee-uh 11 spellings
- anthoceros an-THOSS-er-oss 11 spellings