Buxbaumia is a genus of twelve moss species, first named in 1742 and later placed into modern botanical nomenclature to honor the German physician and botanist who discovered it near the mouth of the Volga River. For most of its life the plant is microscopic and goes unnoticed, becoming visible only once it produces its distinctively asymmetrical spore capsule, a structure whose shape appears to bridge primitive and modern moss lineages.
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It was first named in 1742 by Albrecht von Haller and later brought into modern botanical nomenclature in 1801 by Johann Hedwig to commemorate Johann Christian Buxbaum, a German physician and botanist who discovered the moss in 1712 at the mouth of the Volga River.
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