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  "schema_version": 1,
  "url": "https://botanai.app/genus/balaka/",
  "id": {
    "slug": "balaka"
  },
  "genus": "Balaka",
  "family": "Arecaceae",
  "family_url": "https://botanai.app/family/arecaceae/",
  "accepted_species": 11,
  "documented_species": 0,
  "species": [
    {
      "scientific_name": "Balaka diffusa",
      "authorship": "Hodel",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000921312",
      "slug": "balaka-diffusa",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Balaka insularis",
      "authorship": "Zona & W.J.Baker",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001316486",
      "slug": "balaka-insularis",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Balaka longirostris",
      "authorship": "Becc.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000313017",
      "slug": "balaka-longirostris",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Balaka macrocarpa",
      "authorship": "Burret",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000313027",
      "slug": "balaka-macrocarpa",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Balaka microcarpa",
      "authorship": "Burret",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000313036",
      "slug": "balaka-microcarpa",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Balaka pauciflora",
      "authorship": "(H.Wendl.) H.E.Moore",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000313067",
      "slug": "balaka-pauciflora",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Balaka samoensis",
      "authorship": "Becc.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000313123",
      "slug": "balaka-samoensis",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Balaka seemannii",
      "authorship": "(H.Wendl.) Becc.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000313134",
      "slug": "balaka-seemannii",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Balaka siliensis",
      "authorship": "Christoph.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000313144",
      "slug": "balaka-siliensis",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Balaka streptostachys",
      "authorship": "D.Fuller & Dowe",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000313166",
      "slug": "balaka-streptostachys",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Balaka tahitensis",
      "authorship": "(H.Wendl.) Becc.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000313177",
      "slug": "balaka-tahitensis",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    }
  ],
  "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"
    }
  ],
  "license": {
    "data": "CC BY 4.0",
    "attribution": "BotanAI, https://botanai.app/genus/balaka/"
  }
}