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      "scientific_name": "Gossypium incanum",
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      "scientific_name": "Gossypium klotzschianum",
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      "scientific_name": "Gossypium laxum",
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      "scientific_name": "Gossypium lobatum",
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      "scientific_name": "Gossypium londonderriense",
      "authorship": "Fryxell, Craven & J.M.Stewart",
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      "scientific_name": "Gossypium longicalyx",
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      "scientific_name": "Gossypium populifolium",
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      "url": null
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Gossypium raimondii",
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      "scientific_name": "Gossypium robinsonii",
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/gossypium-robinsonii/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Gossypium rotundifolium",
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      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Gossypium schwendimanii",
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      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Gossypium somalense",
      "authorship": "(Gürke) J.B.Hutch., Silow & S.G.Stephens",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000708096",
      "slug": "gossypium-somalense",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Gossypium stephensii",
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      "scientific_name": "Gossypium stocksii",
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      "url": null
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Gossypium sturtianum",
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/gossypium-sturtianum/"
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      "scientific_name": "Gossypium thurberi",
      "authorship": "Tod.",
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      "slug": "gossypium-thurberi",
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/gossypium-thurberi/"
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Gossypium timorense",
      "authorship": "Prokh.",
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      "slug": "gossypium-timorense",
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      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Gossypium tomentosum",
      "authorship": "Nutt. ex Seem.",
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      "slug": "gossypium-tomentosum",
      "photographs_found": 40,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/gossypium-tomentosum/"
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Gossypium trifurcatum",
      "authorship": "Vollesen",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000708122",
      "slug": "gossypium-trifurcatum",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Gossypium trilobum",
      "authorship": "(Sessé & Moc. ex DC.) Skovst.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000708123",
      "slug": "gossypium-trilobum",
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      "url": null
    },
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      "scientific_name": "Gossypium triphyllum",
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      "wfo": "wfo-0000708125",
      "slug": "gossypium-triphyllum",
      "photographs_found": 3,
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/gossypium-triphyllum/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Gossypium turneri",
      "authorship": "Fryxell",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000708126",
      "slug": "gossypium-turneri",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Gossypium vollesenii",
      "authorship": "Fryxell",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000708133",
      "slug": "gossypium-vollesenii",
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      "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"
    }
  ],
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    "data": "CC BY 4.0",
    "attribution": "BotanAI, https://botanai.app/genus/gossypium/"
  }
}