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      "authorship": "L.",
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      "scientific_name": "Taxus brevifolia",
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    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Taxus calcicola",
      "authorship": "L.M.Gao & Mich.Möller",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001338205",
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      "url": null
    },
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      "scientific_name": "Taxus canadensis",
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      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/taxus-canadensis/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Taxus chinensis",
      "authorship": "(Pilg.) Rehder",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000459430",
      "slug": "taxus-chinensis",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Taxus contorta",
      "authorship": "Griff.",
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      "slug": "taxus-contorta",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Taxus cuspidata",
      "authorship": "Siebold & Zucc.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000408609",
      "slug": "taxus-cuspidata",
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      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/taxus-cuspidata/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Taxus floridana",
      "authorship": "Nutt. ex Chapm.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000408623",
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      "photographs_found": 14,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/taxus-floridana/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Taxus florinii",
      "authorship": "Spjut",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000510441",
      "slug": "taxus-florinii",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Taxus globosa",
      "authorship": "Schltdl.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000409120",
      "slug": "taxus-globosa",
      "photographs_found": 5,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/taxus-globosa/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Taxus mairei",
      "authorship": "(Lemée & H.Lév.) S.Y.Hu",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000459404",
      "slug": "taxus-mairei",
      "photographs_found": 4,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/taxus-mairei/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Taxus sumatrana",
      "authorship": "(Miq.) de Laub.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000459490",
      "slug": "taxus-sumatrana",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Taxus wallichiana",
      "authorship": "Zucc.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000409081",
      "slug": "taxus-wallichiana",
      "photographs_found": 1,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Taxus × media",
      "authorship": "Rehder",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000459450",
      "slug": "taxus-media",
      "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"
    }
  ],
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    "attribution": "BotanAI, https://botanai.app/genus/taxus/"
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