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        "name": "Azukia radiata",
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        "name": "Phasellus farinosus",
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        "name": "Phasellus lanatus",
        "authorship": "Moench"
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        "name": "Phasellus roseus",
        "authorship": "Medik."
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        "name": "Phaseolus abyssinicus",
        "authorship": "Savi"
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        "name": "Phaseolus aureus",
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      {
        "name": "Phaseolus aureus",
        "authorship": "Roxb."
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      {
        "name": "Phaseolus bundoo",
        "authorship": "Siebold"
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      {
        "name": "Phaseolus chanetii",
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      {
        "name": "Phaseolus citrinus",
        "authorship": "Savi"
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      {
        "name": "Phaseolus farinosus",
        "authorship": "L."
      },
      {
        "name": "Phaseolus hircinus",
        "authorship": "Steud."
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      {
        "name": "Phaseolus novo-guineense",
        "authorship": "Baker f."
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      {
        "name": "Phaseolus novoguineensis",
        "authorship": "Baker f."
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        "name": "Phaseolus opisotrichus",
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      {
        "name": "Phaseolus radiatus",
        "authorship": "L."
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        "name": "Phaseolus radiatus var. setulosus",
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        "name": "Phaseolus radiatus var. typicus",
        "authorship": "Prain"
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      {
        "name": "Phaseolus scaberulus",
        "authorship": "Miq."
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      {
        "name": "Phaseolus setulosus",
        "authorship": "Dalzell"
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      {
        "name": "Phaseolus sublobatus",
        "authorship": "Buch.-Ham."
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        "name": "Phaseolus sublobatus",
        "authorship": "Roxb."
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      {
        "name": "Phaseolus sublobatus var. setulosus",
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      {
        "name": "Phaseolus truncatus",
        "authorship": "Blume ex Miq."
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        "name": "Pueraria chaneti",
        "authorship": "H.Lév."
      },
      {
        "name": "Pueraria chanetii",
        "authorship": "H.Lév."
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      {
        "name": "Rudua aurea",
        "authorship": "(Roxb.) F.Maek."
      },
      {
        "name": "Rudua aurea",
        "authorship": "Maek."
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        "name": "Vigna brachycarpa",
        "authorship": "Kurz"
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        "name": "Vigna mungo var. sublobata",
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      },
      {
        "name": "Vigna opisotricha",
        "authorship": "A.Rich."
      },
      {
        "name": "Vigna perrieriana",
        "authorship": "R.Vig."
      },
      {
        "name": "Vigna radiata var. dublobata",
        "authorship": "(Roxb.) Verdc."
      },
      {
        "name": "Vigna stipulata",
        "authorship": "Hayata"
      },
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        "name": "Vigna sublobata",
        "authorship": "(Roxb.) Babu & S.K.Sharma"
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      {
        "name": "Vigna sublobata",
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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_published",
      "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": "Only 10 annotated flowering records, below our threshold of 30. A curve fitted to a dozen records is noise, so we do not draw one."
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