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    "authorship": "(Lam. ex Dubois) Isov.",
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        "name": "Hypnum myosuron",
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        "name": "Isothecium curvatum",
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        "name": "Isothecium myurum",
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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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