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      "scientific_name": "Cypripedium × catherinae",
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      "scientific_name": "Cypripedium × wenqingiae",
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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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      "url": "https://www.worldfloraonline.org/",
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