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        "name": "Brachythecium cochlearifolium",
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        "name": "Brachythecium populeum f. angustifrons",
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        "name": "Brachythecium populeum f. excurrens",
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        "name": "Brachythecium populeum f. longisetum",
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        "name": "Brachythecium populeum f. majus",
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        "name": "Brachythecium populeum f. rufescens",
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        "name": "Brachythecium populeum subsp. nanopes",
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        "name": "Brachythecium populeum var. amoenum",
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        "name": "Brachythecium populeum var. angustifolium",
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        "name": "Brachythecium populeum var. attenuatum",
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        "name": "Brachythecium populeum var. brachycarpum",
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        "name": "Brachythecium populeum var. cataractarum",
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        "name": "Brachythecium populeum var. falciforme",
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        "name": "Brachythecium populeum var. filiforme",
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        "name": "Brachythecium populeum var. jaapianum",
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        "name": "Brachythecium populeum var. japonicum",
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        "name": "Brachythecium populeum var. kominaticum",
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        "name": "Brachythecium populeum var. levieri",
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        "name": "Brachythecium populeum var. longisetum",
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        "name": "Brachythecium populeum var. majus",
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        "name": "Brachythecium populeum var. nutans",
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        "name": "Brachythecium populeum var. ovatum",
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        "name": "Brachythecium populeum var. revolutum",
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        "name": "Brachythecium populeum var. rufescens",
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        "name": "Brachythecium populeum var. togakusense",
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        "name": "Brachythecium populeum var. yamamotoi",
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        "name": "Brachythecium strictopatens",
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        "name": "Cirriphyllum amoenum",
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        "name": "Cirriphyllum populeum",
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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."
    },
    {
      "field": "hardiness_zone",
      "status": "not_published",
      "reason": "Not published for any species. A USDA hardiness zone is the average annual EXTREME minimum temperature, and we hold the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and typically about 16 C warmer. Presenting one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a zone at all."
    },
    {
      "field": "phenology",
      "status": "not_sourced",
      "reason": "No dated flowering annotations found for this taxon."
    }
  ],
  "license": {
    "data": "CC BY 4.0",
    "attribution": "BotanAI, https://botanai.app/plants/sciuro-hypnum-populeum/",
    "note": "This document is licensed CC BY 4.0. The PHOTOGRAPHS it links are licensed individually and separately: each carries its own license and license_url, and those terms govern. Underlying taxonomy is CC0 (World Flora Online); native range is CC BY 3.0 (Kew)."
  }
}