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      "scientific_name": "Blechnum appendiculatum",
      "authorship": "Willd.",
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      "scientific_name": "Blechnum auriculatum",
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      "scientific_name": "Blechnum australe",
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      "scientific_name": "Blechnum austrobrasilianum",
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      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Blechnum gracile",
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      "scientific_name": "Blechnum gracilipes",
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      "scientific_name": "Blechnum guayanense",
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      "url": null
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Blechnum hastatum",
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      "slug": "blechnum-hastatum",
      "photographs_found": 34,
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/blechnum-hastatum/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Blechnum heringeri",
      "authorship": "Brade",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000155005",
      "slug": "blechnum-heringeri",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Blechnum laevigatum",
      "authorship": "Cav.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001228584",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Blechnum lanceola",
      "authorship": "Sw.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001119518",
      "slug": "blechnum-lanceola",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Blechnum longipilosum",
      "authorship": "V.A.O.Dittrich & Salino",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001318731",
      "slug": "blechnum-longipilosum",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Blechnum ludificans",
      "authorship": "Herter",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001269504",
      "slug": "blechnum-ludificans",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Blechnum malacothrix",
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      "wfo": "wfo-0001116409",
      "slug": "blechnum-malacothrix",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Blechnum meridense",
      "authorship": "Klotzsch",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001120324",
      "slug": "blechnum-meridense",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Blechnum occidentale",
      "authorship": "L.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001109501",
      "slug": "blechnum-occidentale",
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      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/blechnum-occidentale/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Blechnum polypodioides",
      "authorship": "Raddi",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001109502",
      "slug": "blechnum-polypodioides",
      "photographs_found": 5,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/blechnum-polypodioides/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Blechnum punctulatum",
      "authorship": "Sw.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001108455",
      "slug": "blechnum-punctulatum",
      "photographs_found": 159,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/blechnum-punctulatum/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Blechnum rivulorum",
      "authorship": "V.A.O.Dittrich & Salino",
      "wfo": "wfo-1000043580",
      "slug": "blechnum-rivulorum",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Blechnum rosulatum",
      "authorship": "V.A.O.Dittrich, Gasper & B.Schindl.",
      "wfo": "wfo-1000087020",
      "slug": "blechnum-rosulatum",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Blechnum tomentosum",
      "authorship": "M.Kessler & A.R.Sm.",
      "wfo": "wfo-1000003360",
      "slug": "blechnum-tomentosum",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Blechnum × caudatum",
      "authorship": "Cav.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001113397",
      "slug": "blechnum-caudatum",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Blechnum × confluens",
      "authorship": "Schltdl. & Cham.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001113401",
      "slug": "blechnum-confluens",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Blechnum × leopoldense",
      "authorship": "(Dutra) V.A.O.Dittrich & Salino",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001343885",
      "slug": "blechnum-leopoldense",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Blechnum × pampasicum",
      "authorship": "de la Sota & M.L.Durán",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000163313",
      "slug": "blechnum-pampasicum",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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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"
    }
  ],
  "license": {
    "data": "CC BY 4.0",
    "attribution": "BotanAI, https://botanai.app/genus/blechnum/"
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}