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        "name": "Astrodontium sericeum",
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        "name": "Brachythecium brevirameum",
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        "name": "Brachythecium scabripes",
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        "name": "Homalothecium boivinianum",
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        "name": "Homalothecium boivinii",
        "authorship": "Besch. ex Kindb."
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        "name": "Homalothecium bonplandii",
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        "name": "Homalothecium excavatum",
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        "name": "Homalothecium longicuspis",
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        "name": "Homalothecium macrostegium",
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        "name": "Homalothecium mexicanum",
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        "name": "Homalothecium nilgheriense",
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        "name": "Homalothecium sciureum",
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        "name": "Hookeria leskeoides",
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        "name": "Hypnum macrostegium",
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        "name": "Hypnum nilgheriense var. ceylanicum",
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        "name": "Hypnum sciureum",
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        "name": "Isothecium nilgheriense",
        "authorship": "Mont."
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        "name": "Leskea bonplandii",
        "authorship": "Hook."
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        "name": "Leucodon sericeus",
        "authorship": "(A.Jaeger) Hornsch."
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        "name": "Leucodon sericeus var. afrostriatus",
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        "name": "Neckera sericea",
        "authorship": "Müll.Hal."
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        "name": "Orthothecium nilgheriense",
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        "name": "Palamocladium macrostegium f. pilifolium",
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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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