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  "url": "https://botanai.app/genus/elytraria/",
  "id": {
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  "genus": "Elytraria",
  "family": "Acanthaceae",
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      "scientific_name": "Elytraria acaulis",
      "authorship": "(L.f.) Lindau",
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      "scientific_name": "Elytraria bissei",
      "authorship": "H.Dietr.",
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      "url": null
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/elytraria-bromoides/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Elytraria carolinensis",
      "authorship": "Pers.",
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      "slug": "elytraria-carolinensis",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Elytraria caroliniensis",
      "authorship": "(J.F.Gmel.) Pers.",
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      "photographs_found": 16,
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/elytraria-caroliniensis/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Elytraria cubana",
      "authorship": "Alain",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000666721",
      "slug": "elytraria-cubana",
      "photographs_found": 1,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Elytraria filicaulis",
      "authorship": "Borhidi & O.Muñiz",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000666724",
      "slug": "elytraria-filicaulis",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Elytraria imbricata",
      "authorship": "(Vahl) Pers.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000666727",
      "slug": "elytraria-imbricata",
      "photographs_found": 115,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/elytraria-imbricata/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Elytraria ivorensis",
      "authorship": "Dokosi",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000666730",
      "slug": "elytraria-ivorensis",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Elytraria klugii",
      "authorship": "Leonard",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000666731",
      "slug": "elytraria-klugii",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Elytraria macrophylla",
      "authorship": "Leonard",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000666733",
      "slug": "elytraria-macrophylla",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Elytraria madagascariensis",
      "authorship": "(Benoist) E.Hossain",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000666734",
      "slug": "elytraria-madagascariensis",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Elytraria marginata",
      "authorship": "Vahl",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000666735",
      "slug": "elytraria-marginata",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Elytraria maritima",
      "authorship": "J.K.Morton",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000666736",
      "slug": "elytraria-maritima",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Elytraria mexicana",
      "authorship": "Fryxell & S.D.Koch",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000666737",
      "slug": "elytraria-mexicana",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Elytraria minor",
      "authorship": "Dokosi",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000666739",
      "slug": "elytraria-minor",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Elytraria nodosa",
      "authorship": "E.Hossain",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000666741",
      "slug": "elytraria-nodosa",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Elytraria planifolia",
      "authorship": "Leonard",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000666743",
      "slug": "elytraria-planifolia",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Elytraria prolifera",
      "authorship": "Leonard",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000666744",
      "slug": "elytraria-prolifera",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Elytraria serpens",
      "authorship": "Greuter & R.Rankin",
      "wfo": "wfo-1000026880",
      "slug": "elytraria-serpens",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Elytraria shaferi",
      "authorship": "(P.Wilson) Leonard",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000666747",
      "slug": "elytraria-shaferi",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Elytraria spathulifolia",
      "authorship": "Borhidi & O.Muñiz",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000666748",
      "slug": "elytraria-spathulifolia",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Elytraria tuberosa",
      "authorship": "Leonard",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000666754",
      "slug": "elytraria-tuberosa",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    }
  ],
  "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/elytraria/"
  }
}