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      "scientific_name": "Cucurbita galeottii",
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      "scientific_name": "Cucurbita okeechobeensis",
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      "scientific_name": "Cucurbita pedatifolia",
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      "scientific_name": "Cucurbita pepo",
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Cucurbita radicans",
      "authorship": "Naudin",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
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      "scientific_name": "Cucurbita × scabridifolia",
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      "wfo": "wfo-0000629158",
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    "rationale": "This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species below the gate is listed here rather than given a page of its own."
  },
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      "name": "World Flora Online Plant List",
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      "url": "https://www.worldfloraonline.org/",
      "retrieved": "2026-07-12"
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