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  "url": "https://botanai.app/genus/ballota/",
  "id": {
    "slug": "ballota"
  },
  "genus": "Ballota",
  "family": "Lamiaceae",
  "family_url": "https://botanai.app/family/lamiaceae/",
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  "documented_species": 1,
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Ballota adenophora",
      "authorship": "Hedge",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000340925",
      "slug": "ballota-adenophora",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Ballota andreuzziana",
      "authorship": "Pamp.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000314694",
      "slug": "ballota-andreuzziana",
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      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Ballota antalyensis",
      "authorship": "Tezcan & H.Duman",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001334694",
      "slug": "ballota-antalyensis",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Ballota antilibanotica",
      "authorship": "Post",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000314705",
      "slug": "ballota-antilibanotica",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Ballota byblensis",
      "authorship": "Semaan & R.M.Haber",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000791680",
      "slug": "ballota-byblensis",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Ballota cristata",
      "authorship": "P.H.Davis",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000314825",
      "slug": "ballota-cristata",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Ballota glandulosissima",
      "authorship": "Hub.-Mor. & Patzak",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000314979",
      "slug": "ballota-glandulosissima",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Ballota grisea",
      "authorship": "Pojark.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000314992",
      "slug": "ballota-grisea",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Ballota kaiseri",
      "authorship": "Täckh.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000315184",
      "slug": "ballota-kaiseri",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Ballota larendana",
      "authorship": "Boiss. & Heldr.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000315213",
      "slug": "ballota-larendana",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Ballota luteola",
      "authorship": "Velen.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000315252",
      "slug": "ballota-luteola",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Ballota macrodonta",
      "authorship": "Boiss. & Balansa",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000315271",
      "slug": "ballota-macrodonta",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Ballota nigra",
      "authorship": "L.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000315321",
      "slug": "ballota-nigra",
      "photographs_found": 1569,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/ballota-nigra/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Ballota philistaea",
      "authorship": "Bornm.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000315539",
      "slug": "ballota-philistaea",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Ballota platyloma",
      "authorship": "Rech.f.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000315561",
      "slug": "ballota-platyloma",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Ballota saxatilis",
      "authorship": "Sieber ex C.Presl",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000315703",
      "slug": "ballota-saxatilis",
      "photographs_found": 1,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Ballota sechmenii",
      "authorship": "Gemici & Leblebici",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000315781",
      "slug": "ballota-sechmenii",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Ballota velerea",
      "authorship": "Maire, Weiller & Wilczek",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000315968",
      "slug": "ballota-velerea",
      "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/ballota/"
  }
}