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  "url": "https://botanai.app/genus/cassiope/",
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  },
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  "family": "Ericaceae",
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      "scientific_name": "Cassiope abbreviata",
      "authorship": "Hand.-Mazz.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000589548",
      "slug": "cassiope-abbreviata",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cassiope argyrotricha",
      "authorship": "T.Z.Hsu",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000589550",
      "slug": "cassiope-argyrotricha",
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      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Cassiope ericoides",
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      "slug": "cassiope-ericoides",
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/cassiope-ericoides/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cassiope fastigiata",
      "authorship": "(Wall.) D.Don",
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      "slug": "cassiope-fastigiata",
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/cassiope-fastigiata/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cassiope fujianensis",
      "authorship": "L.K.Ling & G.S.Hoo",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000589555",
      "slug": "cassiope-fujianensis",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cassiope lycopodioides",
      "authorship": "(Pall.) D.Don",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000589557",
      "slug": "cassiope-lycopodioides",
      "photographs_found": 15,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/cassiope-lycopodioides/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cassiope membranifolia",
      "authorship": "R.C.Fang",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000589562",
      "slug": "cassiope-membranifolia",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cassiope mertensiana",
      "authorship": "(Bong.) G.Don",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000589563",
      "slug": "cassiope-mertensiana",
      "photographs_found": 355,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/cassiope-mertensiana/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cassiope myosuroides",
      "authorship": "W.W.Sm.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000589569",
      "slug": "cassiope-myosuroides",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cassiope nana",
      "authorship": "T.Z.Hsu",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000589570",
      "slug": "cassiope-nana",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cassiope palpebrata",
      "authorship": "W.W.Sm.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000589572",
      "slug": "cassiope-palpebrata",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cassiope pectinata",
      "authorship": "Stapf",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000589573",
      "slug": "cassiope-pectinata",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cassiope redowskii",
      "authorship": "(Cham. & Schltdl.) G.Don",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000589575",
      "slug": "cassiope-redowskii",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cassiope selaginoides",
      "authorship": "Hook.f. & Thomson",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000589578",
      "slug": "cassiope-selaginoides",
      "photographs_found": 1,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cassiope tetragona",
      "authorship": "(L.) D.Don",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000589580",
      "slug": "cassiope-tetragona",
      "photographs_found": 190,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/cassiope-tetragona/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cassiope wardii",
      "authorship": "C.Marquand",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000589583",
      "slug": "cassiope-wardii",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cassiope × anadyrensis",
      "authorship": "Jurtzev",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000589549",
      "slug": "cassiope-anadyrensis",
      "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/cassiope/"
  }
}