How to pronounce“liverworts”in English

They looked like modern liverworts, and they lived 472 million years ago.

That means these liverworts had already had some time to evolve and diversify; they probably first appeared on land 10 or 20 million years before these spores were made, maybe even earlier.

And there are nonvascular plants like liverworts that don’t have specialized transport cells.

They're the nonvascular plants: the liverworts, the hornworts and everybody's best friends, the mosses.

The next branch on the phylogenetic tree is liverworts.

Despite their unfortunate name, liverworts do tons of cool, useful stuff, like helping rocks break down into soil,

The very oldest fossils of plant fragments look really similar to liverworts, but nobody really knows which of the bryophytes evolved first and which descended from which.