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      "scientific_name": "Cyanotis ake-assii",
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      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Cyanotis angusta",
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      "scientific_name": "Cyanotis arachnoidea",
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      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Cyanotis arcotensis",
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      "url": null
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Cyanotis beddomei",
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      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Cyanotis burmannia",
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      "scientific_name": "Cyanotis caespitosa",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Cyanotis ceylanica",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/cyanotis-ciliata/"
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Cyanotis cristata",
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/cyanotis-cristata/"
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      "scientific_name": "Cyanotis cucullata",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Cyanotis cupricola",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Cyanotis deccanensis",
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      "scientific_name": "Cyanotis dybowskii",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Cyanotis epiphytica",
      "authorship": "Blatt.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000366478",
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      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cyanotis fasciculata",
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/cyanotis-fasciculata/"
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Cyanotis flexuosa",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Cyanotis foecunda",
      "authorship": "DC. ex Hassk.",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Cyanotis ganganensis",
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      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cyanotis grandidieri",
      "authorship": "H.Perrier",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000366549",
      "slug": "cyanotis-grandidieri",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cyanotis hepperi",
      "authorship": "Brenan",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000366555",
      "slug": "cyanotis-hepperi",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cyanotis homblei",
      "authorship": "De Wild.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000366585",
      "slug": "cyanotis-homblei",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cyanotis karliana",
      "authorship": "Hassk.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000366617",
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      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Cyanotis kawakamii",
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      "wfo": "wfo-0000366622",
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      "photographs_found": 7,
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/cyanotis-kawakamii/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cyanotis lanata",
      "authorship": "Benth.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000366650",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cyanotis lanceolata",
      "authorship": "Wight",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000366661",
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      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cyanotis lapidosa",
      "authorship": "E.Phillips",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000366689",
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      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/cyanotis-lapidosa/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cyanotis longifolia",
      "authorship": "Benth.",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Cyanotis loureiroana",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Cyanotis lourensis",
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      "wfo": "wfo-0000366747",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cyanotis moluccana",
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      "slug": "cyanotis-moluccana",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cyanotis natalia",
      "authorship": "Boluda & Tahin.",
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      "slug": "cyanotis-natalia",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cyanotis nyctitropa",
      "authorship": "Deflers",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000366824",
      "slug": "cyanotis-nyctitropa",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cyanotis pachyrrhiza",
      "authorship": "Oberm.",
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      "slug": "cyanotis-pachyrrhiza",
      "photographs_found": 2,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cyanotis paludosa",
      "authorship": "Brenan",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000366845",
      "slug": "cyanotis-paludosa",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cyanotis pedunculata",
      "authorship": "Merr.",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cyanotis pilosa",
      "authorship": "Schult.f.",
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      "slug": "cyanotis-pilosa",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Cyanotis polyrrhiza",
      "authorship": "Hochst. ex Hassk.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000366915",
      "slug": "cyanotis-polyrrhiza",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cyanotis repens",
      "authorship": "Faden & D.M.Cameron",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000793413",
      "slug": "cyanotis-repens",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Cyanotis reutiana",
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      "wfo": "wfo-0000366941",
      "slug": "cyanotis-reutiana",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cyanotis robusta",
      "authorship": "Oberm.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000366945",
      "slug": "cyanotis-robusta",
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      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/cyanotis-robusta/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cyanotis scaberula",
      "authorship": "Hutch.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000366990",
      "slug": "cyanotis-scaberula",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cyanotis somaliensis",
      "authorship": "C.B.Clarke",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000367013",
      "slug": "cyanotis-somaliensis",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cyanotis speciosa",
      "authorship": "(L.f.) Hassk.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000367020",
      "slug": "cyanotis-speciosa",
      "photographs_found": 320,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/cyanotis-speciosa/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cyanotis thwaitesii",
      "authorship": "Hassk.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000367039",
      "slug": "cyanotis-thwaitesii",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cyanotis tuberosa",
      "authorship": "(Roxb.) Schult.f.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000367043",
      "slug": "cyanotis-tuberosa",
      "photographs_found": 20,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/cyanotis-tuberosa/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cyanotis vaga",
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      "slug": "cyanotis-vaga",
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      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cyanotis villosa",
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      "wfo": "wfo-0000367079",
      "slug": "cyanotis-villosa",
      "photographs_found": 5,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/cyanotis-villosa/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cyanotis vivipara",
      "authorship": "Dalzell",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000367095",
      "slug": "cyanotis-vivipara",
      "photographs_found": 2,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    }
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  "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/cyanotis/"
  }
}