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  "$schema": "https://botanai.app/schema/genus-v1.json",
  "schema_version": 1,
  "url": "https://botanai.app/genus/cleistogenes/",
  "id": {
    "slug": "cleistogenes"
  },
  "genus": "Cleistogenes",
  "family": "Poaceae",
  "family_url": "https://botanai.app/family/poaceae/",
  "accepted_species": 17,
  "documented_species": 2,
  "species": [
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cleistogenes caespitosa",
      "authorship": "Keng",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000860240",
      "slug": "cleistogenes-caespitosa",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cleistogenes calcarea",
      "authorship": "Tzvelev & Prob.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001342720",
      "slug": "cleistogenes-calcarea",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cleistogenes festucacea",
      "authorship": "Honda",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000860243",
      "slug": "cleistogenes-festucacea",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cleistogenes gatacrei",
      "authorship": "(Stapf) Bor",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000860245",
      "slug": "cleistogenes-gatacrei",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cleistogenes hackelii",
      "authorship": "(Honda) Honda",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000860247",
      "slug": "cleistogenes-hackelii",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cleistogenes hancei",
      "authorship": "Keng",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000860252",
      "slug": "cleistogenes-hancei",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cleistogenes kazanovskyi",
      "authorship": "Tzvelev & Prob.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001342718",
      "slug": "cleistogenes-kazanovskyi",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cleistogenes kitagawae",
      "authorship": "Honda",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000860254",
      "slug": "cleistogenes-kitagawae",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cleistogenes krjukovae",
      "authorship": "Tzvelev & Prob.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001342719",
      "slug": "cleistogenes-krjukovae",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cleistogenes mucronata",
      "authorship": "Keng ex Keng f. & L.Liou",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000860259",
      "slug": "cleistogenes-mucronata",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cleistogenes nedoluzhkoi",
      "authorship": "Tzvelev",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000860264",
      "slug": "cleistogenes-nedoluzhkoi",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cleistogenes polyphylla",
      "authorship": "Keng ex Keng f. & L.Liou",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000860265",
      "slug": "cleistogenes-polyphylla",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cleistogenes probatovae",
      "authorship": "Tzvelev",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001335599",
      "slug": "cleistogenes-probatovae",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cleistogenes ramiflora",
      "authorship": "Keng f. & C.P.Wang",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000860266",
      "slug": "cleistogenes-ramiflora",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cleistogenes serotina",
      "authorship": "(L.) Keng",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000860268",
      "slug": "cleistogenes-serotina",
      "photographs_found": 16,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/cleistogenes-serotina/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cleistogenes songorica",
      "authorship": "(Roshev.) Ohwi",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000860277",
      "slug": "cleistogenes-songorica",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cleistogenes squarrosa",
      "authorship": "(Trin.) Keng",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000860278",
      "slug": "cleistogenes-squarrosa",
      "photographs_found": 38,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/cleistogenes-squarrosa/"
    }
  ],
  "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/cleistogenes/"
  }
}