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      "scientific_name": "Bougainvillea berberidifolia",
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      "authorship": "Holttum & Standl.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001086778",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Bougainvillea campanulata",
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    },
    {
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    },
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      "url": null
    },
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      "scientific_name": "Bougainvillea infesta",
      "authorship": "Griseb.",
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      "slug": "bougainvillea-infesta",
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      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Bougainvillea lehmanniana",
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      "wfo": "wfo-0000569895",
      "slug": "bougainvillea-lehmanniana",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Bougainvillea lehmannii",
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      "url": null
    },
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      "scientific_name": "Bougainvillea malmeana",
      "authorship": "Heimerl",
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      "slug": "bougainvillea-malmeana",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Bougainvillea modesta",
      "authorship": "Heimerl",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000569898",
      "slug": "bougainvillea-modesta",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
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      "scientific_name": "Bougainvillea pachyphylla",
      "authorship": "Heimerl ex Standl.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000569899",
      "slug": "bougainvillea-pachyphylla",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Bougainvillea peruviana",
      "authorship": "Bonpl.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000569902",
      "slug": "bougainvillea-peruviana",
      "photographs_found": 2,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Bougainvillea pomacea",
      "authorship": "Choisy",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000569904",
      "slug": "bougainvillea-pomacea",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Bougainvillea praecox",
      "authorship": "Griseb.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000569905",
      "slug": "bougainvillea-praecox",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Bougainvillea spectabilis",
      "authorship": "Willd.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000569912",
      "slug": "bougainvillea-spectabilis",
      "photographs_found": 3,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/bougainvillea-spectabilis/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Bougainvillea spinosa",
      "authorship": "(Cav.) Heimerl",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000569917",
      "slug": "bougainvillea-spinosa",
      "photographs_found": 57,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/bougainvillea-spinosa/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Bougainvillea stipitata",
      "authorship": "Griseb.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000569919",
      "slug": "bougainvillea-stipitata",
      "photographs_found": 29,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/bougainvillea-stipitata/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Bougainvillea trollii",
      "authorship": "Heimerl",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000569926",
      "slug": "bougainvillea-trollii",
      "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/bougainvillea/"
  }
}