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      "url": null
    },
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      "scientific_name": "Cantua bicolor",
      "authorship": "Lem.",
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      "scientific_name": "Cantua cordata",
      "authorship": "Juss.",
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      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Cantua cuzcoensis",
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/cantua-cuzcoensis/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cantua dendritica",
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      "wfo": "wfo-0000508652",
      "slug": "cantua-dendritica",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Cantua flexuosa",
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      "url": null
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Cantua glutinosa",
      "authorship": "C.Presl",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000584128",
      "slug": "cantua-glutinosa",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cantua hibrida",
      "authorship": "Herrera",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000584129",
      "slug": "cantua-hibrida",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cantua longifolia",
      "authorship": "Brand",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000584135",
      "slug": "cantua-longifolia",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cantua mediamnis",
      "authorship": "J.M.Porter & Prather",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000508653",
      "slug": "cantua-mediamnis",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cantua megapotamica",
      "authorship": "Spreng.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000584137",
      "slug": "cantua-megapotamica",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cantua ovata",
      "authorship": "Cav.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000584140",
      "slug": "cantua-ovata",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cantua pyrifolia",
      "authorship": "Juss.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000584147",
      "slug": "cantua-pyrifolia",
      "photographs_found": 1,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cantua quercifolia",
      "authorship": "Juss.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000584148",
      "slug": "cantua-quercifolia",
      "photographs_found": 17,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/cantua-quercifolia/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cantua tomentosa",
      "authorship": "Cav.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000584154",
      "slug": "cantua-tomentosa",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cantua volcanica",
      "authorship": "J.M.Porter & Prather",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000508655",
      "slug": "cantua-volcanica",
      "photographs_found": 4,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/cantua-volcanica/"
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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/cantua/"
  }
}