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        "name": "Cynontodium affine",
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        "name": "Cynontodium rufescens",
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        "name": "Diaphanophyllum boryanum",
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        "name": "Diaphanophyllum setosum",
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        "name": "Didymodon plicatus",
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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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