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      "scientific_name": "Sophora tetraptera",
      "authorship": "J.S.Muell.",
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      "scientific_name": "Sophora tonkinensis",
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      "scientific_name": "Sophora wightii",
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      "scientific_name": "Sophora xanthoantha",
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      "scientific_name": "Sophora yunnanensis",
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      "scientific_name": "Sophora zeylanica",
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    "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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