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        "ethics",
        "owners"
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      "PHY.LIV"
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    "purpose": "Let an agent explain what flowering plants are and how they are classified, identify major groups, relay their ecological and economic importance, and separate the botanical group from cultural uses of flowers.",
    "definition": "A plant of the angiosperms, the largest group of land plants with about 300000 species, characterised by flowers, seeds enclosed in a fruit and double fertilisation; flowering plants include most crops, trees, grasses and garden plants, dominate terrestrial ecosystems and are classified into major clades such as monocots and eudicots, with the registry entry also gathering aliases about dried and pressed flowers and birth flowers.",
    "what_it_is_for": "Not applicable; a major plant group.",
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      "explain defining features and classification",
      "identify major groups",
      "relay ecological and economic importance",
      "separate botanical from cultural senses"
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      "Flowers",
      "Fruits enclosing seeds",
      "Double fertilisation",
      "Dominant land plants"
    ],
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      "Flowers and enclosed seeds",
      "Monocots, eudicots and basal groups",
      "Conifers and ferns lack flowers and fruits"
    ],
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        "note": ""
      },
      {
        "quantity": "origin",
        "typical_range": "about 130-140 million years ago",
        "unit": "age",
        "note": "fossil record; molecular estimates older"
      }
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      "eudicots including most trees and herbs",
      "magnoliids and basal angiosperms",
      "cultivated flowering plants and crops",
      "individual species such as Daphne striata, listed as an alias",
      "cultural uses: dried and pressed flowers, oshibana, birth flowers"
    ],
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        "relation": "is a kind of",
        "target": "plant",
        "why": "the largest group"
      },
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        "relation": "includes",
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      },
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        "relation": "includes",
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      },
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        "relation": "is contrasted with",
        "target": "gymnosperm",
        "why": "seed plants without flowers"
      }
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        "scheme": "taxon",
        "value_or_pattern": "Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta",
        "note": "group name"
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        "note": "current system"
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      "International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi and plants",
      "Plant health and trade regulations",
      "Plant conservation laws"
    ],
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      "Confusing angiosperms with all plants",
      "Outdated classifications",
      "Sense confusion with cultural flower uses"
    ],
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    "out_of_scope": [],
    "characteristics": [],
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      "may": [
        "Identify flowering plants and report their names, uses and protection status.",
        "Help gardeners and farmers care for plants they own."
      ],
      "must_not": [
        "Collect, uproot or trade protected wild plants.",
        "Identify a plant as safe to eat or use as medicine without certainty.",
        "Introduce or recommend invasive species where they threaten native flora.",
        "Use pesticides harmful to pollinators where rules forbid it."
      ],
      "requires_human": [
        "Deciding whether a wild plant is safe for food or medicine."
      ]
    },
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      "considerations": [
        "Many flowering plants are threatened; collection and habitat loss drive extinctions.",
        "Misidentified plants can poison people and animals."
      ],
      "affected_parties": [
        "Threatened species",
        "Foragers",
        "Pollinators"
      ]
    },
    "owners": {
      "steward": "The landowner or grower; wildlife and plant protection law covers wild species.",
      "master_systems": [
        "Plant species and conservation databases"
      ]
    }
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      "id": "wikidata",
      "title": "Wikidata item Q886167: flowering plant",
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      "url_status": "live",
      "what_it_supports": "identity and sense of the item",
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      "id": "wikipedia-de",
      "title": "Wikipedia (de): Blume",
      "url": "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blume",
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        "name": "Define",
        "description": "What flowering plants are.",
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                  {
                    "text": "What defines a flowering plant, and what features distinguish the group?",
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                  },
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                    "text": "Is the question about the botanical group or about flowers in culture?",
                    "kind": "boundary"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
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            "id": "classification",
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            "description": "Classification.",
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                "id": "classification-finding",
                "name": "Classification",
                "description": "Classification.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "How are flowering plants classified into major clades and families?",
                    "kind": "definition"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Which entry fits the specific family or species?",
                    "kind": "action"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "biology",
        "name": "Biology",
        "description": "Life cycle and ecology.",
        "rationale": "Science.",
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            "id": "reproduction",
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                "id": "reproduction-finding",
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                "description": "Reproduction.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "How do flowers, pollination, double fertilisation and fruits work?",
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                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Which entry fits pollination?",
                    "kind": "action"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
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          {
            "id": "ecology",
            "name": "Ecology",
            "description": "Ecology.",
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                "id": "ecology-finding",
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                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "What roles do flowering plants play in ecosystems?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Which references are standard?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  }
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              }
            ]
          }
        ]
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      {
        "id": "use",
        "name": "Use",
        "description": "Economic and cultural use.",
        "rationale": "Practice.",
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            "id": "economy",
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            "description": "Crops and horticulture.",
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                "id": "economy-finding",
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                "description": "Economy.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "How do flowering plants provide food, materials and ornamentals?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Which entry fits agriculture or horticulture?",
                    "kind": "action"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
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            "id": "culture",
            "name": "Culture",
            "description": "Flowers in culture.",
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                "id": "culture-finding",
                "name": "Culture",
                "description": "Culture.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "How are flowers used in culture, from pressed flower art to birth flowers?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Which entry fits the specific practice?",
                    "kind": "action"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
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      {
        "id": "context",
        "name": "Context",
        "description": "Evolution and conservation.",
        "rationale": "Study.",
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            "id": "evolution",
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            "description": "Origin and evolution.",
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                "id": "evolution-finding",
                "name": "Evolution",
                "description": "Evolution.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "How and when did flowering plants originate and diversify, with findings attributed?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Which entry fits plant evolution?",
                    "kind": "action"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "id": "conservation",
            "name": "Conservation",
            "description": "Conservation.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "conservation-finding",
                "name": "Conservation",
                "description": "Conservation.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "What threats face flowering plants, and how are they protected?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Which entry fits plant conservation?",
                    "kind": "action"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  "openQuestions": [
    "Should cultural flower uses be separate entries?",
    "How should the APG classification be linked?",
    "The registry entry has merged aliases naming a species and cultural practices; should they be split off?"
  ],
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    "questions": 16
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}