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      "scientific_name": "Metrosideros brevistylis",
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Metrosideros cherrieri",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Metrosideros colensoi",
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      "scientific_name": "Metrosideros collina",
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/metrosideros-collina/"
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Metrosideros cordata",
      "authorship": "(C.T.White & W.D.Francis) J.W.Dawson",
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      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Metrosideros diffusa",
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Metrosideros dolichandra",
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      "scientific_name": "Metrosideros elegans",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Metrosideros engleriana",
      "authorship": "Schltr.",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Metrosideros excelsa",
      "authorship": "Sol. ex Gaertn.",
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/metrosideros-excelsa/"
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      "scientific_name": "Metrosideros fulgens",
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      "scientific_name": "Metrosideros gregoryi",
      "authorship": "Christoph.",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Metrosideros halconensis",
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      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Metrosideros humboldtianus",
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      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Metrosideros kermadecensis",
      "authorship": "W.R.B.Oliv.",
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      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Metrosideros laurifolia",
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      "scientific_name": "Metrosideros longipetiolata",
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      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Metrosideros macropus",
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/metrosideros-macropus/"
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      "scientific_name": "Metrosideros microphylla",
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      "photographs_found": 0,
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      "url": null
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Metrosideros nervulosa",
      "authorship": "C.Moore & F.Muell.",
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      "photographs_found": 11,
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/metrosideros-nervulosa/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Metrosideros nitida",
      "authorship": "Brongn. & Gris",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Metrosideros ochranthus",
      "authorship": "A.C.Sm.",
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      "slug": "metrosideros-ochranthus",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Metrosideros operculata",
      "authorship": "Labill.",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Metrosideros oreomyrtus",
      "authorship": "Däniker",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Metrosideros ovata",
      "authorship": "(C.T.White) J.W.Dawson",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000242503",
      "slug": "metrosideros-ovata",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Metrosideros paniensis",
      "authorship": "J.W.Dawson",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000242507",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Metrosideros parallelinervis",
      "authorship": "C.T.White",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000242509",
      "slug": "metrosideros-parallelinervis",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Metrosideros parkinsonii",
      "authorship": "Buchanan",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000242510",
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      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/metrosideros-parkinsonii/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Metrosideros patens",
      "authorship": "J.W.Dawson",
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      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Metrosideros perforata",
      "authorship": "(J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.) A.Rich.",
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/metrosideros-perforata/"
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Metrosideros polymorpha",
      "authorship": "Gaudich.",
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      "photographs_found": 537,
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/metrosideros-polymorpha/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Metrosideros porphyrea",
      "authorship": "Schltr.",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Metrosideros punctata",
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      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Metrosideros ramiflora",
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      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Metrosideros regelii",
      "authorship": "F.Muell.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000242576",
      "slug": "metrosideros-regelii",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Metrosideros robusta",
      "authorship": "A.Cunn.",
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/metrosideros-robusta/"
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Metrosideros rotundifolia",
      "authorship": "J.W.Dawson",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000242582",
      "slug": "metrosideros-rotundifolia",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Metrosideros rugosa",
      "authorship": "A.Gray",
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      "slug": "metrosideros-rugosa",
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/metrosideros-rugosa/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Metrosideros salomonensis",
      "authorship": "C.T.White",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000242591",
      "slug": "metrosideros-salomonensis",
      "photographs_found": 0,
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      "url": null
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Metrosideros scariosa",
      "authorship": "J.C.Wendl. ex Hornem.",
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      "slug": "metrosideros-scariosa",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Metrosideros sclerocarpa",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Metrosideros stipularis",
      "authorship": "(Hook. & Arn.) Hook.f.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000242603",
      "slug": "metrosideros-stipularis",
      "photographs_found": 44,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/metrosideros-stipularis/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Metrosideros tabwemasanaensis",
      "authorship": "Pillon",
      "wfo": "wfo-1000005269",
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      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Metrosideros tardiflora",
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      "slug": "metrosideros-tardiflora",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Metrosideros tetragyna",
      "authorship": "J.W.Dawson",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Metrosideros tetrasticha",
      "authorship": "Guillaumin",
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      "slug": "metrosideros-tetrasticha",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Metrosideros tremuloides",
      "authorship": "(A.Heller) Rock",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000242615",
      "slug": "metrosideros-tremuloides",
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      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/metrosideros-tremuloides/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Metrosideros umbellata",
      "authorship": "Cav.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000242617",
      "slug": "metrosideros-umbellata",
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      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/metrosideros-umbellata/"
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Metrosideros vitiensis",
      "authorship": "(A.Gray) Pillon",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001429380",
      "slug": "metrosideros-vitiensis",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Metrosideros waialealae",
      "authorship": "(Rock) Rock",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000242626",
      "slug": "metrosideros-waialealae",
      "photographs_found": 4,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/metrosideros-waialealae/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Metrosideros whitakeri",
      "authorship": "J.W.Dawson",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000242629",
      "slug": "metrosideros-whitakeri",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Metrosideros whiteana",
      "authorship": "J.W.Dawson",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000242630",
      "slug": "metrosideros-whiteana",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Metrosideros × sub-tomentosa",
      "authorship": "Carse",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000242606",
      "slug": "metrosideros-sub-tomentosa",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "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"
    }
  ],
  "license": {
    "data": "CC BY 4.0",
    "attribution": "BotanAI, https://botanai.app/genus/metrosideros/"
  }
}