To mark the International Year for Biodiversity, Natural England has teamed up with the Guardian and the Oxford University Museum of Natural History to give people the opportunity to name 10 rare species.

There are more than 50,000 species living in Britain, but most are known to only a few experts. Even some of our most endangered species have only scientific names to describe them, so it’s hardly surprising that their decline has not been headline news.

All of the species in the competition are listed on the UK Biodiversity Action Plan as priority species for conservation, we want you to come up with names that will inspire people to do more to protect them.

Enter the online competition here

Of the ten, the edible, medicinal lichen Usnea florida is found locally on the Island.