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      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Myrica californica",
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      "scientific_name": "Myrica caroliniensis",
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      "scientific_name": "Myrica cerifera",
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      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Myrica dentulata",
      "authorship": "Baill.",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Myrica diversifolia",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Myrica esculenta",
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      "scientific_name": "Myrica faya",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Myrica faya",
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    },
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      "scientific_name": "Myrica funckii",
      "authorship": "A.Chev.",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Myrica gale",
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      "scientific_name": "Myrica goetzei",
      "authorship": "Engl.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000447391",
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      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Myrica hartwegii",
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/myrica-hartwegii/"
    },
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      "scientific_name": "Myrica holdrigeana",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Myrica humilis",
      "authorship": "Cham.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001085116",
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      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/myrica-humilis/"
    },
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      "scientific_name": "Myrica inodora",
      "authorship": "W.Bartram",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001085107",
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      "photographs_found": 66,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/myrica-inodora/"
    },
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      "scientific_name": "Myrica integra",
      "authorship": "(A.Chev.) Killick",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001085118",
      "slug": "myrica-integra",
      "photographs_found": 8,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/myrica-integra/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Myrica integrifolia",
      "authorship": "Roxb.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000447450",
      "slug": "myrica-integrifolia",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
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      "scientific_name": "Myrica interrupta",
      "authorship": "Benth.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001085093",
      "slug": "myrica-interrupta",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
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      "scientific_name": "Myrica javanica",
      "authorship": "Blume",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000447499",
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      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Myrica kandtiana",
      "authorship": "Engl.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001085138",
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      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Myrica kilimandscharica",
      "authorship": "Engl.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001230516",
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      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Myrica kraussiana",
      "authorship": "Buchinger",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001085121",
      "slug": "myrica-kraussiana",
      "photographs_found": 74,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/myrica-kraussiana/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Myrica lindeniana",
      "authorship": "C.DC.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000447505",
      "slug": "myrica-lindeniana",
      "photographs_found": 1,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Myrica meyeri-johannis",
      "authorship": "Engl.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001248951",
      "slug": "myrica-meyeri-johannis",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Myrica microbracteata",
      "authorship": "Weim.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001248953",
      "slug": "myrica-microbracteata",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Myrica mildbraedii",
      "authorship": "Engl.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001248946",
      "slug": "myrica-mildbraedii",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Myrica nana",
      "authorship": "A.Chev.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001229008",
      "slug": "myrica-nana",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Myrica parvifolia",
      "authorship": "Benth.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000447443",
      "slug": "myrica-parvifolia",
      "photographs_found": 72,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/myrica-parvifolia/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Myrica pavonis",
      "authorship": "C.DC.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001085109",
      "slug": "myrica-pavonis",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Myrica pensylvanica",
      "authorship": "Mirb.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001085143",
      "slug": "myrica-pensylvanica",
      "photographs_found": 879,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/myrica-pensylvanica/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Myrica phanerodonta",
      "authorship": "Standl.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001085134",
      "slug": "myrica-phanerodonta",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Myrica picardae",
      "authorship": "Krug & Urb.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000447471",
      "slug": "myrica-picardae",
      "photographs_found": 13,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/myrica-picardae/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Myrica pilulifera",
      "authorship": "Rendle",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000447470",
      "slug": "myrica-pilulifera",
      "photographs_found": 19,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/myrica-pilulifera/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Myrica pringlei",
      "authorship": "Greenm.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001085131",
      "slug": "myrica-pringlei",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Myrica pubescens",
      "authorship": "Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000447468",
      "slug": "myrica-pubescens",
      "photographs_found": 44,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/myrica-pubescens/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Myrica punctata",
      "authorship": "Griseb.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001033193",
      "slug": "myrica-punctata",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Myrica quercifolia",
      "authorship": "L.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001085123",
      "slug": "myrica-quercifolia",
      "photographs_found": 323,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/myrica-quercifolia/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Myrica rotundata",
      "authorship": "Steyerm. & Maguire",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000447460",
      "slug": "myrica-rotundata",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Myrica rubra",
      "authorship": "(Lour.) Siebold & Zucc.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001085136",
      "slug": "myrica-rubra",
      "photographs_found": 108,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/myrica-rubra/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Myrica salicifolia",
      "authorship": "Hochst. ex A.Rich.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001085135",
      "slug": "myrica-salicifolia",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Myrica serrata",
      "authorship": "Lam.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000447295",
      "slug": "myrica-serrata",
      "photographs_found": 173,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/myrica-serrata/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Myrica shaferi",
      "authorship": "Urb. & Britton",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000447294",
      "slug": "myrica-shaferi",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Myrica singularis",
      "authorship": "Parra-Os.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001259189",
      "slug": "myrica-singularis",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Myrica spathulata",
      "authorship": "Mirb.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001085096",
      "slug": "myrica-spathulata",
      "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."
  },
  "sources": [
    {
      "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/myrica/"
  }
}