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      "scientific_name": "Hesperostipa comata",
      "authorship": "(Trin. & Rupr.) Barkworth",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000874118",
      "slug": "hesperostipa-comata",
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/hesperostipa-comata/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Hesperostipa curtiseta",
      "authorship": "(Hitchc.) Barkworth",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000874121",
      "slug": "hesperostipa-curtiseta",
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      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/hesperostipa-curtiseta/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Hesperostipa neomexicana",
      "authorship": "(Thurb.) Barkworth",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000874122",
      "slug": "hesperostipa-neomexicana",
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      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/hesperostipa-neomexicana/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Hesperostipa saxicola",
      "authorship": "(Hitchc.) Valdés-Reyna & Barkworth",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000874123",
      "slug": "hesperostipa-saxicola",
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      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Hesperostipa spartea",
      "authorship": "(Trin.) Barkworth",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000874124",
      "slug": "hesperostipa-spartea",
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/hesperostipa-spartea/"
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    "rule": "at least 3 photographs licensed for commercial use",
    "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/",
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