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        "name": "Ectropothecium ometepense",
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        "name": "Eurhynchium mexicanum",
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        "name": "Isothecium pallidum",
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        "name": "Leskea pallida",
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        "name": "Microthamnium atroviride",
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        "name": "Microthamnium aureum",
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        "name": "Microthamnium cygnicollum",
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        "name": "Microthamnium minusculifolium",
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        "name": "Microthamnium tuerckheimii",
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        "name": "Microthamnium viridicaule f. lutescens",
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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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      "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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