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    "slug": "epithelantha"
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  "genus": "Epithelantha",
  "family": "Cactaceae",
  "family_url": "https://botanai.app/family/cactaceae/",
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      "scientific_name": "Epithelantha bokei",
      "authorship": "L.D.Benson",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000670352",
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/epithelantha-bokei/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Epithelantha cryptica",
      "authorship": "D.Donati & Zanov.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000749298",
      "slug": "epithelantha-cryptica",
      "photographs_found": 10,
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/epithelantha-cryptica/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Epithelantha greggii",
      "authorship": "(Engelm.) Orcutt",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000670354",
      "slug": "epithelantha-greggii",
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      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/epithelantha-greggii/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Epithelantha ilariae",
      "authorship": "D.Donati & Zanov.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000748489",
      "slug": "epithelantha-ilariae",
      "photographs_found": 6,
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/epithelantha-ilariae/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Epithelantha micromeris",
      "authorship": "(Engelm.) F.A.C.Weber ex Britton & Rose",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000670355",
      "slug": "epithelantha-micromeris",
      "photographs_found": 345,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/epithelantha-micromeris/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Epithelantha pachyrhiza",
      "authorship": "(W.T.Marshall) Backeb.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000670372",
      "slug": "epithelantha-pachyrhiza",
      "photographs_found": 8,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/epithelantha-pachyrhiza/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Epithelantha polycephala",
      "authorship": "Backeb.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000670375",
      "slug": "epithelantha-polycephala",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Epithelantha potosina",
      "authorship": "(D.Donati & Zanov.) D.Aquino & S.Arias",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001430896",
      "slug": "epithelantha-potosina",
      "photographs_found": 8,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/epithelantha-potosina/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Epithelantha pulchra",
      "authorship": "(D.Donati & Zanov.) D.Aquino & S.Arias",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001430897",
      "slug": "epithelantha-pulchra",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Epithelantha spinosior",
      "authorship": "C.Schmoll",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000670377",
      "slug": "epithelantha-spinosior",
      "photographs_found": 13,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/epithelantha-spinosior/"
    }
  ],
  "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/epithelantha/"
  }
}