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      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Musa lawitiensis",
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      "url": null
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      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Musa ochracea",
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      "scientific_name": "Musa splendida",
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      "scientific_name": "Musa violascens",
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    },
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      "scientific_name": "Musa × alinsanaya",
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      "scientific_name": "Musa × parahaekkinenii",
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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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      "url": "https://www.worldfloraonline.org/",
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    "data": "CC BY 4.0",
    "attribution": "BotanAI, https://botanai.app/genus/musa/"
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