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        "name": "Anacalypta starckeana var. brachyodus",
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        "name": "Anacalypta starckeana var. subgymnostoma",
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        "name": "Anacalypta starkei",
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        "name": "Anacalypta zealandiae",
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        "name": "Bryum minutum",
        "authorship": "Dicks."
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        "name": "Dermatodon affinis",
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        "name": "Dermatodon starkei",
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        "name": "Desmatodon affinis",
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        "name": "Desmatodon starkei",
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        "name": "Desmatodon starkei var. brevidens",
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        "name": "Didymodon starckeanus",
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        "name": "Grimmia starckeana",
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        "name": "Gymnostomum brevicaule",
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        "name": "Microbryum brevicaule",
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        "name": "Microbryum starckeanum f. brevifolium",
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        "name": "Microbryum starckeanum f. dextrorsum",
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        "name": "Microbryum starckeanum var. leiostoma",
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        "name": "Pottia alfredii",
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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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      "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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      "reason": "Fewer than 30 georeferenced research-grade observations of this taxon, which is too few to state a percentile range for the conditions it grows in. We would rather show nothing than a range computed from eight points in one county."
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