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      "scientific_name": "Elegia asperiflora",
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      "scientific_name": "Elegia atratiflora",
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      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Elegia caespitosa",
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      "scientific_name": "Elegia capensis",
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Elegia coleura",
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Elegia cuspidata",
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      "scientific_name": "Elegia decipiens",
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      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Elegia deusta",
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      "scientific_name": "Elegia ebracteata",
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    },
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      "scientific_name": "Elegia elephantina",
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      "photographs_found": 4,
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/elegia-elephantina/"
    },
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      "scientific_name": "Elegia equisetacea",
      "authorship": "Mast.",
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      "scientific_name": "Elegia esterhuyseniae",
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      "scientific_name": "Elegia extensa",
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/elegia-extensa/"
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Elegia fastigata",
      "authorship": "Mast.",
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      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Elegia fenestrata",
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      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Elegia filacea",
      "authorship": "Mast.",
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      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/elegia-filacea/"
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      "scientific_name": "Elegia fistulosa",
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/elegia-fistulosa/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Elegia fucata",
      "authorship": "Esterh.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000402290",
      "slug": "elegia-fucata",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Elegia galpinii",
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      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/elegia-galpinii/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Elegia grandis",
      "authorship": "(Spreng. ex Nees) Kunth",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000402313",
      "slug": "elegia-grandis",
      "photographs_found": 3,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/elegia-grandis/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Elegia grandispicata",
      "authorship": "H.P.Linder",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000402314",
      "slug": "elegia-grandispicata",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Elegia hookeriana",
      "authorship": "(Mast.) Moline & H.P.Linder",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000917665",
      "slug": "elegia-hookeriana",
      "photographs_found": 63,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/elegia-hookeriana/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Elegia hutchinsonii",
      "authorship": "Pillans",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000402316",
      "slug": "elegia-hutchinsonii",
      "photographs_found": 4,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/elegia-hutchinsonii/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Elegia intermedia",
      "authorship": "(Steud.) Pillans",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000402318",
      "slug": "elegia-intermedia",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Elegia juncea",
      "authorship": "L.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000402322",
      "slug": "elegia-juncea",
      "photographs_found": 42,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/elegia-juncea/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Elegia macrocarpa",
      "authorship": "(Kunth) Moline & H.P.Linder",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000917423",
      "slug": "elegia-macrocarpa",
      "photographs_found": 27,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/elegia-macrocarpa/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Elegia marlothii",
      "authorship": "(Pillans) Moline & H.P.Linder",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000917720",
      "slug": "elegia-marlothii",
      "photographs_found": 4,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/elegia-marlothii/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Elegia microcarpa",
      "authorship": "(Kunth) Moline & H.P.Linder",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000917710",
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      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/elegia-microcarpa/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Elegia mucronata",
      "authorship": "Rchb. ex Kunth",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000402359",
      "slug": "elegia-mucronata",
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      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/elegia-mucronata/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Elegia muirii",
      "authorship": "Pillans",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000402363",
      "slug": "elegia-muirii",
      "photographs_found": 27,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/elegia-muirii/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Elegia namaquense",
      "authorship": "H.P.Linder & Helme",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001343244",
      "slug": "elegia-namaquense",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Elegia neesii",
      "authorship": "Mast.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000402367",
      "slug": "elegia-neesii",
      "photographs_found": 13,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/elegia-neesii/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Elegia nuda",
      "authorship": "(Rottb.) Kunth",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000402371",
      "slug": "elegia-nuda",
      "photographs_found": 111,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/elegia-nuda/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Elegia persistens",
      "authorship": "Mast.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000402411",
      "slug": "elegia-persistens",
      "photographs_found": 18,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/elegia-persistens/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Elegia prominens",
      "authorship": "Pillans",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000402414",
      "slug": "elegia-prominens",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Elegia racemosa",
      "authorship": "Pers.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000402440",
      "slug": "elegia-racemosa",
      "photographs_found": 56,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/elegia-racemosa/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Elegia recta",
      "authorship": "(Mast.) Moline & H.P.Linder",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000917709",
      "slug": "elegia-recta",
      "photographs_found": 38,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/elegia-recta/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Elegia rigida",
      "authorship": "Mast.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000402454",
      "slug": "elegia-rigida",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Elegia spathacea",
      "authorship": "Mast.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000402457",
      "slug": "elegia-spathacea",
      "photographs_found": 31,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/elegia-spathacea/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Elegia squamosa",
      "authorship": "Mast.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000402468",
      "slug": "elegia-squamosa",
      "photographs_found": 40,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/elegia-squamosa/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Elegia stipularis",
      "authorship": "Mast.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000402474",
      "slug": "elegia-stipularis",
      "photographs_found": 134,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/elegia-stipularis/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Elegia stokoei",
      "authorship": "Pillans",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000402481",
      "slug": "elegia-stokoei",
      "photographs_found": 7,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/elegia-stokoei/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Elegia tectorum",
      "authorship": "(L.f.) Moline & H.P.Linder",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000917708",
      "slug": "elegia-tectorum",
      "photographs_found": 170,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/elegia-tectorum/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Elegia thyrsifera",
      "authorship": "Pers.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000402489",
      "slug": "elegia-thyrsifera",
      "photographs_found": 10,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/elegia-thyrsifera/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Elegia thyrsoidea",
      "authorship": "Pillans",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000402497",
      "slug": "elegia-thyrsoidea",
      "photographs_found": 69,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/elegia-thyrsoidea/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Elegia vaginulata",
      "authorship": "Mast.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000402506",
      "slug": "elegia-vaginulata",
      "photographs_found": 24,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/elegia-vaginulata/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Elegia verreauxii",
      "authorship": "Mast.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000402512",
      "slug": "elegia-verreauxii",
      "photographs_found": 11,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/elegia-verreauxii/"
    }
  ],
  "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/elegia/"
  }
}