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      "scientific_name": "Merostachys judziewiczii",
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      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Merostachys lanata",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Merostachys latifolia",
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Merostachys leptophylla",
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      "wfo": "wfo-0000879723",
      "slug": "merostachys-leptophylla",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Merostachys magellanica",
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      "scientific_name": "Merostachys magnispicula",
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      "scientific_name": "Merostachys maguireorum",
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Merostachys medullosa",
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      "scientific_name": "Merostachys mexicana",
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Merostachys multiramea",
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      "scientific_name": "Merostachys neesii",
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      "scientific_name": "Merostachys pauciflora",
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      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Merostachys petiolata",
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      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Merostachys pilifera",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Merostachys polyantha",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Merostachys procerrima",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Merostachys ramosa",
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      "wfo": "wfo-0001317673",
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      "documented": false,
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Merostachys ramosissima",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Merostachys retrorsa",
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      "wfo": "wfo-0000879741",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Merostachys riedeliana",
      "authorship": "Rupr. ex Döll",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000879742",
      "slug": "merostachys-riedeliana",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
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      "scientific_name": "Merostachys rondoniensis",
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      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Merostachys scandens",
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      "wfo": "wfo-0000879744",
      "slug": "merostachys-scandens",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Merostachys sellovii",
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      "slug": "merostachys-sellovii",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Merostachys skvortzovii",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
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      "scientific_name": "Merostachys sparsiflora",
      "authorship": "Rupr.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000879747",
      "slug": "merostachys-sparsiflora",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Merostachys speciosa",
      "authorship": "Spreng.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000879748",
      "slug": "merostachys-speciosa",
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      "scientific_name": "Merostachys tatianae",
      "authorship": "Santos-Gonç., Carv.-Okano & Filg.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001317674",
      "slug": "merostachys-tatianae",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Merostachys ternata",
      "authorship": "Nees",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000879749",
      "slug": "merostachys-ternata",
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      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Merostachys vestita",
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      "wfo": "wfo-0000879751",
      "slug": "merostachys-vestita",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Merostachys ximenae",
      "authorship": "Pianiss., Vinic.-Silva & L.G.Clark",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001317664",
      "slug": "merostachys-ximenae",
      "photographs_found": 0,
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      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Merostachys yungasensis",
      "authorship": "Lizarazu",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001333746",
      "slug": "merostachys-yungasensis",
      "photographs_found": 0,
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      "url": null
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  "evidence_gate": {
    "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",
      "note": "accepted names, authorities, classification",
      "license": "CC0",
      "url": "https://www.worldfloraonline.org/",
      "retrieved": "2026-07-12"
    }
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    "data": "CC BY 4.0",
    "attribution": "BotanAI, https://botanai.app/genus/merostachys/"
  }
}