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        "name": "Bryum ciliatum",
        "authorship": "(Hedw.) Dicks."
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        "name": "Bryum hedwigia",
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        "name": "Gymnostomum ciliatum",
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        "name": "Gymnostomum hedwigia",
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        "name": "Hedwigia albicans",
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        "name": "Hedwigia albicans f. nana",
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        "name": "Hedwigia albicans f. secunda",
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        "name": "Hedwigia albicans f. viridis",
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        "name": "Hedwigia albicans subsp. subnuda",
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        "name": "Hedwigia albicans var. secunda",
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        "name": "Hedwigia albicans var. subimberbis",
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        "name": "Hedwigia albicans var. subnuda",
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        "name": "Hedwigia albicans var. viridis",
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        "name": "Hedwigia ciliata f. ciliata",
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      {
        "name": "Hedwigia ciliata f. gracilis",
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        "name": "Hedwigia ciliata f. secunda",
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      "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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