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    {
      "scientific_name": "Acanthopsis dispermoides",
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      "wfo": "wfo-0001342979",
      "slug": "acanthopsis-dispermoides",
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      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/acanthopsis-dispermoides/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Acanthopsis dregeana",
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      "wfo": "wfo-0001344603",
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Acanthopsis erosa",
      "authorship": "H.M.Steyn",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001344593",
      "slug": "acanthopsis-erosa",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Acanthopsis glabra",
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      "wfo": "wfo-0001421015",
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/acanthopsis-glabra/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Acanthopsis glandulopalmata",
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      "wfo": "wfo-0001421007",
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      "photographs_found": 2,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Acanthopsis glauca",
      "authorship": "(Nees) Schinz",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000513743",
      "slug": "acanthopsis-glauca",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Acanthopsis hoffmannseggiana",
      "authorship": "(Nees) C.B.Clarke",
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      "slug": "acanthopsis-hoffmannseggiana",
      "photographs_found": 27,
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/acanthopsis-hoffmannseggiana/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Acanthopsis horrida",
      "authorship": "(Nees) Nees",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000513745",
      "slug": "acanthopsis-horrida",
      "photographs_found": 72,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/acanthopsis-horrida/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Acanthopsis insueta",
      "authorship": "H.M.Steyn",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001421008",
      "slug": "acanthopsis-insueta",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Acanthopsis ludoviciana",
      "authorship": "H.M.Steyn",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001342977",
      "slug": "acanthopsis-ludoviciana",
      "photographs_found": 12,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/acanthopsis-ludoviciana/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Acanthopsis nitida",
      "authorship": "H.M.Steyn",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001421009",
      "slug": "acanthopsis-nitida",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Acanthopsis pagodiformis",
      "authorship": "H.M.Steyn",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001421010",
      "slug": "acanthopsis-pagodiformis",
      "photographs_found": 2,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Acanthopsis scullyi",
      "authorship": "(S.Moore) Oberm.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000513746",
      "slug": "acanthopsis-scullyi",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Acanthopsis spathularis",
      "authorship": "(Nees) Schinz",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000513747",
      "slug": "acanthopsis-spathularis",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Acanthopsis tetragona",
      "authorship": "H.M.Steyn",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001347917",
      "slug": "acanthopsis-tetragona",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Acanthopsis tuba",
      "authorship": "H.M.Steyn",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001342976",
      "slug": "acanthopsis-tuba",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Acanthopsis villosa",
      "authorship": "H.M.Steyn",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001421016",
      "slug": "acanthopsis-villosa",
      "photographs_found": 7,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/acanthopsis-villosa/"
    }
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  "evidence_gate": {
    "rule": "at least 3 photographs licensed for commercial use",
    "rationale": "This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species below the gate is listed here rather than given a page of its own."
  },
  "sources": [
    {
      "name": "World Flora Online Plant List",
      "note": "accepted names, authorities, classification",
      "license": "CC0",
      "url": "https://www.worldfloraonline.org/",
      "retrieved": "2026-07-12"
    }
  ],
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    "data": "CC BY 4.0",
    "attribution": "BotanAI, https://botanai.app/genus/acanthopsis/"
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}