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      "documented": false,
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      "scientific_name": "Myrtus engleriana",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Myrtus fulva",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Myrtus ovalifolia",
      "authorship": "Cambess.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000249027",
      "slug": "myrtus-ovalifolia",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Myrtus parviflora",
      "authorship": "Sessé & Moc.",
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      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Myrtus pavonii",
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      "slug": "myrtus-pavonii",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
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      "scientific_name": "Myrtus pendula",
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      "wfo": "wfo-0000249043",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Myrtus psychotrioides",
      "authorship": "Colla",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000249064",
      "slug": "myrtus-psychotrioides",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Myrtus pulchella",
      "authorship": "Regel",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000249068",
      "slug": "myrtus-pulchella",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Myrtus racemosa",
      "authorship": "Sessé & Moc.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000249080",
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      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Myrtus racemosa",
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      "slug": "myrtus-racemosa-sesse-moc-1000042482",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Myrtus ramiflora",
      "authorship": "Vahl",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000249084",
      "slug": "myrtus-ramiflora",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Myrtus reticulata",
      "authorship": "Kunze ex C.Gay",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000249092",
      "slug": "myrtus-reticulata",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Myrtus sarandi",
      "authorship": "Larrañaga",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000249120",
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      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Myrtus scabra",
      "authorship": "Arruda",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000249121",
      "slug": "myrtus-scabra",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Myrtus suaveolens",
      "authorship": "Parodi",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000249152",
      "slug": "myrtus-suaveolens",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Myrtus trifida",
      "authorship": "Sessé & Moc.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000249176",
      "slug": "myrtus-trifida",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Myrtus triflora",
      "authorship": "Spreng.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000249178",
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      "documented": false,
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Myrtus vestita",
      "authorship": "Spreng.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000249211",
      "slug": "myrtus-vestita",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Myrtus vulcani",
      "authorship": "Korth.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000249222",
      "slug": "myrtus-vulcani",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Myrtus yapacani",
      "authorship": "Kuntze",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000249229",
      "slug": "myrtus-yapacani",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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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."
  },
  "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/myrtus/"
  }
}