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    "slug": "echinocactus"
  },
  "genus": "Echinocactus",
  "family": "Cactaceae",
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Echinocactus centeterius",
      "authorship": "Lehm. ex Pfeiff.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000660262",
      "slug": "echinocactus-centeterius",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Echinocactus criocereus",
      "authorship": "Lem.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001288420",
      "slug": "echinocactus-criocereus",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Echinocactus horizonthalonius",
      "authorship": "Lem.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000660527",
      "slug": "echinocactus-horizonthalonius",
      "photographs_found": 6,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/echinocactus-horizonthalonius/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Echinocactus intricatus",
      "authorship": "Link & Otto",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000660572",
      "slug": "echinocactus-intricatus",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Echinocactus multicostatus",
      "authorship": "Daul",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001430647",
      "slug": "echinocactus-multicostatus",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Echinocactus pachycentrus",
      "authorship": "Lehm. ex Pfeiff.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000660765",
      "slug": "echinocactus-pachycentrus",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Echinocactus platyacanthus",
      "authorship": "Link & Otto",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000660808",
      "slug": "echinocactus-platyacanthus",
      "photographs_found": 191,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/echinocactus-platyacanthus/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Echinocactus quadrinatus",
      "authorship": "Wegener",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000660848",
      "slug": "echinocactus-quadrinatus",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Echinocactus setosus",
      "authorship": "(Linke) Hemsl.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000660953",
      "slug": "echinocactus-setosus",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Echinocactus × contractus",
      "authorship": "Hildm.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001288418",
      "slug": "echinocactus-contractus",
      "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/echinocactus/"
  }
}