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      "scientific_name": "Citrullus amarus",
      "authorship": "Schrad.",
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/citrullus-amarus/"
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      "scientific_name": "Citrullus colocynthis",
      "authorship": "(L.) Schrad.",
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      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/citrullus-colocynthis/"
    },
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      "scientific_name": "Citrullus ecirrhosus",
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/citrullus-ecirrhosus/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Citrullus lanatus",
      "authorship": "(Thunb.) Matsum. & Nakai",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000607858",
      "slug": "citrullus-lanatus",
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      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/citrullus-lanatus/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Citrullus mucosospermus",
      "authorship": "(Fursa) T.B.Fursa",
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      "slug": "citrullus-mucosospermus",
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      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Citrullus naudinianus",
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      "wfo": "wfo-0000607882",
      "slug": "citrullus-naudinianus",
      "photographs_found": 19,
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/citrullus-naudinianus/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Citrullus rehmii",
      "authorship": "De Winter",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000607885",
      "slug": "citrullus-rehmii",
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      "url": null
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    "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."
  },
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    {
      "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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    "attribution": "BotanAI, https://botanai.app/genus/citrullus/"
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