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  "url": "https://botanai.app/genus/discocactus/",
  "id": {
    "slug": "discocactus"
  },
  "genus": "Discocactus",
  "family": "Cactaceae",
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      "scientific_name": "Discocactus bahiensis",
      "authorship": "Britton & Rose",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000651930",
      "slug": "discocactus-bahiensis",
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      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Discocactus boliviensis",
      "authorship": "Buining & Brederoo",
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      "slug": "discocactus-boliviensis",
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      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Discocactus buenekeri",
      "authorship": "W.R.Abraham",
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      "slug": "discocactus-buenekeri",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Discocactus catingicola",
      "authorship": "Buining & Brederoo",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000651940",
      "slug": "discocactus-catingicola",
      "photographs_found": 3,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/discocactus-catingicola/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Discocactus diersianus",
      "authorship": "Esteves",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000651951",
      "slug": "discocactus-diersianus",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
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      "scientific_name": "Discocactus ferricola",
      "authorship": "Buining & Brederoo",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000651956",
      "slug": "discocactus-ferricola",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Discocactus hartmannii",
      "authorship": "(K.Schum.) Britton & Rose",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000651961",
      "slug": "discocactus-hartmannii",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Discocactus heptacanthus",
      "authorship": "(Barb.Rodr.) Britton & Rose",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000651972",
      "slug": "discocactus-heptacanthus",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Discocactus horstii",
      "authorship": "Buining & Brederoo",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000651977",
      "slug": "discocactus-horstii",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Discocactus petr-halfarii",
      "authorship": "Zachar",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001430585",
      "slug": "discocactus-petr-halfarii",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Discocactus piscibarbarus",
      "authorship": "N.P.Taylor & Olsthoorn",
      "wfo": "wfo-1000050710",
      "slug": "discocactus-piscibarbarus",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Discocactus placentiformis",
      "authorship": "(Lehm.) K.Schum.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000651996",
      "slug": "discocactus-placentiformis",
      "photographs_found": 5,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/discocactus-placentiformis/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Discocactus pseudoinsignis",
      "authorship": "N.P.Taylor & Zappi",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000652003",
      "slug": "discocactus-pseudoinsignis",
      "photographs_found": 4,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/discocactus-pseudoinsignis/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Discocactus subnudus",
      "authorship": "Britton & Rose",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000652014",
      "slug": "discocactus-subnudus",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Discocactus zehntneri",
      "authorship": "Britton & Rose",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000652019",
      "slug": "discocactus-zehntneri",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "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/discocactus/"
  }
}