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      {
        "name": "Corniola diffusa",
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        "name": "Corothamnus adpressepilosus",
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        "name": "Corothamnus decumbens",
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        "name": "Corothamnus diffusus",
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      {
        "name": "Corothamnus glaber",
        "authorship": "Skalická"
      },
      {
        "name": "Corothamnus halleri",
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      {
        "name": "Corothamnus medius",
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      {
        "name": "Corothamnus pseudoprocumbens",
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        "name": "Cytisus bisflorens",
        "authorship": "Host"
      },
      {
        "name": "Cytisus capitatus subsp. bisflorens",
        "authorship": "(Host) Čelak."
      },
      {
        "name": "Cytisus capitatus subsp. prostratus",
        "authorship": "(Scop.) Čelak."
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      {
        "name": "Cytisus capitatus var. bisflorens",
        "authorship": "(Host) Grab."
      },
      {
        "name": "Cytisus capitatus var. prostratus",
        "authorship": "(Scop.) Grab."
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        "name": "Cytisus decumbens var. diffusus",
        "authorship": "(Willd.) Corb."
      },
      {
        "name": "Cytisus decumbens var. glabratus",
        "authorship": "(F.Gérard ex Rouy) P.Fourn."
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        "name": "Cytisus decumbens var. pedunculatus",
        "authorship": "(L'Hér.) Godr."
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      {
        "name": "Cytisus diffusus",
        "authorship": "(Willd.) Vis."
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      {
        "name": "Cytisus diffusus var. adpressipilosus",
        "authorship": "H.Lindb."
      },
      {
        "name": "Cytisus diffusus var. pindicola",
        "authorship": "Bald."
      },
      {
        "name": "Cytisus heterophyllus",
        "authorship": "Lapeyr."
      },
      {
        "name": "Cytisus hirsutus subsp. bisflorens",
        "authorship": "(Host) Čelak."
      },
      {
        "name": "Cytisus hirsutus var. prostratus",
        "authorship": "(Scop.) Fiori"
      },
      {
        "name": "Cytisus humifusus",
        "authorship": "Vest"
      },
      {
        "name": "Cytisus medius",
        "authorship": "Halácsy"
      },
      {
        "name": "Cytisus prostratus",
        "authorship": "Scop."
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      {
        "name": "Cytisus prostratus var. minor",
        "authorship": "Orph. ex Halácsy"
      },
      {
        "name": "Cytisus pseudoprocumbens",
        "authorship": "Markgr."
      },
      {
        "name": "Euteline decumbens",
        "authorship": "(Durande) Raf."
      },
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        "name": "Genista bisflorens",
        "authorship": "(Host) Rouy"
      },
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        "name": "Genista decumbens",
        "authorship": "(Durande) Willd."
      },
      {
        "name": "Genista diffusa",
        "authorship": "Willd."
      },
      {
        "name": "Genista diffusa subsp. halleri",
        "authorship": "Arcang."
      },
      {
        "name": "Genista halleri",
        "authorship": "Reyn. ex DC."
      },
      {
        "name": "Genista heterophylla",
        "authorship": "(Lapeyr.) DC."
      },
      {
        "name": "Genista humifusa",
        "authorship": "Wulfen"
      },
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        "name": "Genista pedunculata",
        "authorship": "L'Hér."
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        "name": "Genista pedunculata subsp. decumbens",
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        "name": "Genista pedunculata var. glabrata",
        "authorship": "F.Gérard ex Rouy"
      },
      {
        "name": "Genista prostrata",
        "authorship": "(Scop.) Lam."
      },
      {
        "name": "Spartium decumbens",
        "authorship": "Durande"
      },
      {
        "name": "Spartium halleri",
        "authorship": "Lam."
      }
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      "extinct",
      "location_doubtful"
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      "status": "not_published",
      "reason": "Not published anywhere on this site. Every care claim we could make cheaply would be an unsourced enum, which is what the previous version of this site did and why it was deleted."
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      "field": "toxicity",
      "status": "not_published",
      "reason": "Not published. The widely copied list is a copyrighted compilation restricted to noncommercial use, and we will not scrape it. A sourced toxicity dataset is being built from primary literature and is not ready."
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      "field": "botanical_review",
      "status": "not_sourced",
      "reason": "No page on this site has been reviewed by a named botanist. The determination label says so, on every page."
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      "status": "not_sourced",
      "reason": "No vernacular name for this taxon in Wikidata (P1843) or iNaturalist. We do not invent one, and we do not present the scientific name as though it were a common name."
    },
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    },
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      "status": "not_published",
      "reason": "Not published for any species. A USDA hardiness zone is the average annual EXTREME minimum temperature, and we hold the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and typically about 16 C warmer. Presenting one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a zone at all."
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      "field": "phenology",
      "status": "insufficient_evidence",
      "reason": "Only 6 annotated flowering records, below our threshold of 30. A curve fitted to a dozen records is noise, so we do not draw one."
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    "data": "CC BY 4.0",
    "attribution": "BotanAI, https://botanai.app/plants/cytisus-decumbens/",
    "note": "This document is licensed CC BY 4.0. The PHOTOGRAPHS it links are licensed individually and separately: each carries its own license and license_url, and those terms govern. Underlying taxonomy is CC0 (World Flora Online); native range is CC BY 3.0 (Kew)."
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