{
  "$schema": "https://botanai.app/schema/genus-v1.json",
  "schema_version": 1,
  "url": "https://botanai.app/genus/ernestia/",
  "id": {
    "slug": "ernestia"
  },
  "genus": "Ernestia",
  "family": "Melastomataceae",
  "family_url": "https://botanai.app/family/melastomataceae/",
  "accepted_species": 14,
  "documented_species": 2,
  "species": [
    {
      "scientific_name": "Ernestia adenotricha",
      "authorship": "L.Uribe",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000160631",
      "slug": "ernestia-adenotricha",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Ernestia blackii",
      "authorship": "Brade & Markgr.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001253602",
      "slug": "ernestia-blackii",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Ernestia cataractae",
      "authorship": "Tutin",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001251744",
      "slug": "ernestia-cataractae",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Ernestia confertiflora",
      "authorship": "Wurdack",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001253603",
      "slug": "ernestia-confertiflora",
      "photographs_found": 6,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/ernestia-confertiflora/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Ernestia goudotii",
      "authorship": "Triana",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001082707",
      "slug": "ernestia-goudotii",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Ernestia granvillei",
      "authorship": "Wurdack",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001251746",
      "slug": "ernestia-granvillei",
      "photographs_found": 6,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/ernestia-granvillei/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Ernestia karuruana",
      "authorship": "Wurdack",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001279128",
      "slug": "ernestia-karuruana",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Ernestia maguirei",
      "authorship": "Wurdack",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001078770",
      "slug": "ernestia-maguirei",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Ernestia minor",
      "authorship": "Gleason",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001253604",
      "slug": "ernestia-minor",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Ernestia ovata",
      "authorship": "Cogn.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001079192",
      "slug": "ernestia-ovata",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Ernestia quadriseta",
      "authorship": "O.Berg ex Triana",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001078771",
      "slug": "ernestia-quadriseta",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Ernestia rheophytica",
      "authorship": "D.Nunes, J.S.Murillo & Michelang.",
      "wfo": "wfo-1000077323",
      "slug": "ernestia-rheophytica",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Ernestia rubra",
      "authorship": "Pulle",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001079193",
      "slug": "ernestia-rubra",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Ernestia tenella",
      "authorship": "(Bonpl.) DC.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001080595",
      "slug": "ernestia-tenella",
      "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/ernestia/"
  }
}