Sphaerocarpus

noun

Sphaero·​car·​pus

-pəs

: the type genus of Sphaerocarpaceae comprising liverworts with a small many-lobed usually orbicular thallus and with the spores nearly always remaining in tetrads at maturity

Word History

Etymology

New Latin, from sphaer- + -carpus

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