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  "schema_version": 1,
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  "id": {
    "slug": "hamamelis"
  },
  "genus": "Hamamelis",
  "family": "Hamamelidaceae",
  "family_url": "https://botanai.app/family/hamamelidaceae/",
  "accepted_species": 5,
  "documented_species": 4,
  "species": [
    {
      "scientific_name": "Hamamelis japonica",
      "authorship": "Siebold & Zucc.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000715279",
      "slug": "hamamelis-japonica",
      "photographs_found": 10,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/hamamelis-japonica/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Hamamelis mollis",
      "authorship": "Oliv.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000715283",
      "slug": "hamamelis-mollis",
      "photographs_found": 2,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Hamamelis ovalis",
      "authorship": "S.W.Leonard",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000507383",
      "slug": "hamamelis-ovalis",
      "photographs_found": 37,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/hamamelis-ovalis/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Hamamelis vernalis",
      "authorship": "Sarg.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000715295",
      "slug": "hamamelis-vernalis",
      "photographs_found": 33,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/hamamelis-vernalis/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Hamamelis virginiana",
      "authorship": "L.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001065240",
      "slug": "hamamelis-virginiana",
      "photographs_found": 3000,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/hamamelis-virginiana/"
    }
  ],
  "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/hamamelis/"
  }
}