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  "url": "https://botanai.app/genus/cleistocactus/",
  "id": {
    "slug": "cleistocactus"
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  "genus": "Cleistocactus",
  "family": "Cactaceae",
  "family_url": "https://botanai.app/family/cactaceae/",
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      "scientific_name": "Cleistocactus baumannii",
      "authorship": "(Lem.) Lem.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000609243",
      "slug": "cleistocactus-baumannii",
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/cleistocactus-baumannii/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cleistocactus brookeae",
      "authorship": "Cárdenas",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000609255",
      "slug": "cleistocactus-brookeae",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cleistocactus buchtienii",
      "authorship": "Backeb.",
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/cleistocactus-buchtienii/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cleistocactus candelilla",
      "authorship": "Cárdenas",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000609262",
      "slug": "cleistocactus-candelilla",
      "photographs_found": 2,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
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      "scientific_name": "Cleistocactus corroanus",
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      "wfo": "wfo-1000061026",
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      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cleistocactus ferrarii",
      "authorship": "R.Kiesling",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000609284",
      "slug": "cleistocactus-ferrarii",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cleistocactus guentheri",
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      "wfo": "wfo-1000061030",
      "slug": "cleistocactus-guentheri",
      "photographs_found": 3,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/cleistocactus-guentheri/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cleistocactus hildegardiae",
      "authorship": "F.Ritter",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000609299",
      "slug": "cleistocactus-hildegardiae",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cleistocactus hyalacanthus",
      "authorship": "(K.Schum.) Rol.-Goss.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000609303",
      "slug": "cleistocactus-hyalacanthus",
      "photographs_found": 6,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/cleistocactus-hyalacanthus/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cleistocactus inquisivensis",
      "authorship": "(Cárdenas) N.P.Taylor",
      "wfo": "wfo-1000061028",
      "slug": "cleistocactus-inquisivensis",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cleistocactus laniceps",
      "authorship": "(K.Schum.) Rol.-Goss.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000609317",
      "slug": "cleistocactus-laniceps",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cleistocactus luribayensis",
      "authorship": "Cárdenas",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000609321",
      "slug": "cleistocactus-luribayensis",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cleistocactus morawetzianus",
      "authorship": "Backeb.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000609325",
      "slug": "cleistocactus-morawetzianus",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cleistocactus orthogonus",
      "authorship": "Cárdenas",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000609331",
      "slug": "cleistocactus-orthogonus",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cleistocactus parviflorus",
      "authorship": "(K.Schum.) Rol.-Goss.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000609338",
      "slug": "cleistocactus-parviflorus",
      "photographs_found": 11,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/cleistocactus-parviflorus/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cleistocactus piraymirensis",
      "authorship": "Cárdenas",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000609343",
      "slug": "cleistocactus-piraymirensis",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cleistocactus pungens",
      "authorship": "F.Ritter",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000609346",
      "slug": "cleistocactus-pungens",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cleistocactus reae",
      "authorship": "Cárdenas",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000609349",
      "slug": "cleistocactus-reae",
      "photographs_found": 3,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cleistocactus ritteri",
      "authorship": "Backeb. ex Guiggi",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000609352",
      "slug": "cleistocactus-ritteri",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cleistocactus samaipatanus",
      "authorship": "(Cárdenas) D.R.Hunt",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000609356",
      "slug": "cleistocactus-samaipatanus",
      "photographs_found": 15,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cleistocactus smaragdiflorus",
      "authorship": "(F.A.C.Weber) Britton & Rose",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000609362",
      "slug": "cleistocactus-smaragdiflorus",
      "photographs_found": 17,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/cleistocactus-smaragdiflorus/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cleistocactus strausii",
      "authorship": "(Heese) Backeb.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000609366",
      "slug": "cleistocactus-strausii",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cleistocactus tominensis",
      "authorship": "(Weing.) Backeb.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000609374",
      "slug": "cleistocactus-tominensis",
      "photographs_found": 7,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/cleistocactus-tominensis/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cleistocactus winteri",
      "authorship": "D.R.Hunt",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000609388",
      "slug": "cleistocactus-winteri",
      "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/cleistocactus/"
  }
}