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  "schema_version": 1,
  "url": "https://botanai.app/genus/cassia/",
  "id": {
    "slug": "cassia"
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  "genus": "Cassia",
  "family": "Fabaceae",
  "family_url": "https://botanai.app/family/fabaceae/",
  "accepted_species": 52,
  "documented_species": 7,
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      "scientific_name": "Cassia abbreviata",
      "authorship": "Oliv.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000214576",
      "slug": "cassia-abbreviata",
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/cassia-abbreviata/"
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Cassia acisperma",
      "authorship": "Schrank ex Colla",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000589061",
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      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cassia afrofistula",
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      "wfo": "wfo-0000214680",
      "slug": "cassia-afrofistula",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cassia angolensis",
      "authorship": "Welw. ex Hiern",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000214735",
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      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Cassia arereh",
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      "wfo": "wfo-0000214743",
      "slug": "cassia-arereh",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cassia arowana",
      "authorship": "M.R.Schomb.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000589081",
      "slug": "cassia-arowana",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cassia artensis",
      "authorship": "Beauvis.",
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      "slug": "cassia-artensis",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cassia aubrevillei",
      "authorship": "Pellegr.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000214762",
      "slug": "cassia-aubrevillei",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cassia aurita",
      "authorship": "Collad.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000589089",
      "slug": "cassia-aurita",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cassia bakeriana",
      "authorship": "Craib",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000192840",
      "slug": "cassia-bakeriana",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cassia brewsteri",
      "authorship": "(F.Muell.) F.Muell. ex Benth.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001034127",
      "slug": "cassia-brewsteri",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cassia burttii",
      "authorship": "Baker f.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000163627",
      "slug": "cassia-burttii",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cassia carringtoniana",
      "authorship": "Torre",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000589116",
      "slug": "cassia-carringtoniana",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cassia cowanii",
      "authorship": "H.S.Irwin & Barneby",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000178512",
      "slug": "cassia-cowanii",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cassia disperma",
      "authorship": "Vell.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000589154",
      "slug": "cassia-disperma",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cassia eremophila",
      "authorship": "A.Cunn. ex Vogel",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000163757",
      "slug": "cassia-eremophila",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cassia fastuosa",
      "authorship": "Willd. ex Vogel",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001054465",
      "slug": "cassia-fastuosa",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cassia ferruginea",
      "authorship": "(Schrad.) DC.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000174024",
      "slug": "cassia-ferruginea",
      "photographs_found": 1,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cassia fikifiki",
      "authorship": "Aubrév. & Pellegr.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000589171",
      "slug": "cassia-fikifiki",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cassia fistula",
      "authorship": "L.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000163802",
      "slug": "cassia-fistula",
      "photographs_found": 202,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/cassia-fistula/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cassia florifera",
      "authorship": "Herrera",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000589175",
      "slug": "cassia-florifera",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cassia grandis",
      "authorship": "L.f.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000163908",
      "slug": "cassia-grandis",
      "photographs_found": 31,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/cassia-grandis/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cassia hintonii",
      "authorship": "Sandwith",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000165120",
      "slug": "cassia-hintonii",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cassia hippophallus",
      "authorship": "Capuron",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000195775",
      "slug": "cassia-hippophallus",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cassia javanica",
      "authorship": "L.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000164126",
      "slug": "cassia-javanica",
      "photographs_found": 10,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/cassia-javanica/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cassia johannae",
      "authorship": "Vatke",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000193315",
      "slug": "cassia-johannae",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cassia lancangensis",
      "authorship": "Y.Y.Qian",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001240951",
      "slug": "cassia-lancangensis",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cassia leiandra",
      "authorship": "Benth.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000164226",
      "slug": "cassia-leiandra",
      "photographs_found": 1,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cassia leptophylla",
      "authorship": "Vogel",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000174025",
      "slug": "cassia-leptophylla",
      "photographs_found": 15,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/cassia-leptophylla/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cassia mannii",
      "authorship": "Oliv.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000164288",
      "slug": "cassia-mannii",
      "photographs_found": 1,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cassia mariquitensis",
      "authorship": "Mutis",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000589242",
      "slug": "cassia-mariquitensis",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cassia marksiana",
      "authorship": "(F.M.Bailey) Domin",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000188591",
      "slug": "cassia-marksiana",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cassia midas",
      "authorship": "H.S.Irwin & Barneby",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000174875",
      "slug": "cassia-midas",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cassia mornicola",
      "authorship": "Urb.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000589253",
      "slug": "cassia-mornicola",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cassia moschata",
      "authorship": "Kunth",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000174026",
      "slug": "cassia-moschata",
      "photographs_found": 3,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/cassia-moschata/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cassia mystacicarpa",
      "authorship": "Rizzini & Heringer",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001332989",
      "slug": "cassia-mystacicarpa",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cassia pinnata",
      "authorship": "Voigt",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000589293",
      "slug": "cassia-pinnata",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cassia psilocarpa",
      "authorship": "Welw.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000164554",
      "slug": "cassia-psilocarpa",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cassia pulcherrima",
      "authorship": "Dehnh.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000589302",
      "slug": "cassia-pulcherrima",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cassia pulchra",
      "authorship": "Rodsch.",
      "wfo": "wfo-1200022494",
      "slug": "cassia-pulchra",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cassia purgans",
      "authorship": "Steud.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000589304",
      "slug": "cassia-purgans",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cassia queenslandica",
      "authorship": "C.T.White",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000188638",
      "slug": "cassia-queenslandica",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cassia roxburghii",
      "authorship": "DC.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000164654",
      "slug": "cassia-roxburghii",
      "photographs_found": 4,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/cassia-roxburghii/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cassia rubriflora",
      "authorship": "Ducke",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000165536",
      "slug": "cassia-rubriflora",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cassia sieberiana",
      "authorship": "DC.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000164753",
      "slug": "cassia-sieberiana",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cassia spruceana",
      "authorship": "Benth.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000174027",
      "slug": "cassia-spruceana",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cassia surinamensis",
      "authorship": "Dehnh.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000589351",
      "slug": "cassia-surinamensis",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cassia swartzioides",
      "authorship": "Ducke",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000165537",
      "slug": "cassia-swartzioides",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cassia thyrsoidea",
      "authorship": "Brenan",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000164941",
      "slug": "cassia-thyrsoidea",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cassia tomentella",
      "authorship": "(Benth.) Domin",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000187879",
      "slug": "cassia-tomentella",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cassia tuberculata",
      "authorship": "Collad.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000589368",
      "slug": "cassia-tuberculata",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cassia × nealiae",
      "authorship": "H.S.Irwin & Barneby",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000589259",
      "slug": "cassia-nealiae",
      "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/cassia/"
  }
}