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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/cynosurus-cristatus/"
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      "scientific_name": "Cynosurus echinatus",
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/cynosurus-effusus/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cynosurus elegans",
      "authorship": "Desf.",
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      "url": null
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Cynosurus fertilis",
      "authorship": "Lens ex Loisel.",
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      "slug": "cynosurus-fertilis",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Cynosurus junceus",
      "authorship": "Murb.",
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      "slug": "cynosurus-junceus",
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      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Cynosurus peltieri",
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Cynosurus polybracteatus",
      "authorship": "Poir.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000861388",
      "slug": "cynosurus-polybracteatus",
      "photographs_found": 11,
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/cynosurus-polybracteatus/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cynosurus turcomanicus",
      "authorship": "Proskur.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000861410",
      "slug": "cynosurus-turcomanicus",
      "photographs_found": 0,
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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."
  },
  "sources": [
    {
      "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/cynosurus/"
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