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  "schema_version": 1,
  "url": "https://botanai.app/genus/hoodia/",
  "id": {
    "slug": "hoodia"
  },
  "genus": "Hoodia",
  "family": "Apocynaceae",
  "family_url": "https://botanai.app/family/apocynaceae/",
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      "scientific_name": "Hoodia alstonii",
      "authorship": "(N.E.Br.) Plowes",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001259408",
      "slug": "hoodia-alstonii",
      "photographs_found": 10,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/hoodia-alstonii/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Hoodia currorii",
      "authorship": "(Hook.) Decne.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000724441",
      "slug": "hoodia-currorii",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Hoodia dregei",
      "authorship": "N.E.Br.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001103400",
      "slug": "hoodia-dregei",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Hoodia flava",
      "authorship": "(N.E.Br.) Plowes",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001259411",
      "slug": "hoodia-flava",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Hoodia gordonii",
      "authorship": "(Masson) Sweet ex Decne.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001104548",
      "slug": "hoodia-gordonii",
      "photographs_found": 127,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/hoodia-gordonii/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Hoodia juttae",
      "authorship": "Dinter",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001103616",
      "slug": "hoodia-juttae",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Hoodia mossamedensis",
      "authorship": "(L.C.Leach) Plowes",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000724453",
      "slug": "hoodia-mossamedensis",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Hoodia officinalis",
      "authorship": "(N.E.Br.) Plowes",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001259413",
      "slug": "hoodia-officinalis",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Hoodia parviflora",
      "authorship": "N.E.Br.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000724454",
      "slug": "hoodia-parviflora",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Hoodia pedicellata",
      "authorship": "(Schinz) Plowes",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000724455",
      "slug": "hoodia-pedicellata",
      "photographs_found": 5,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/hoodia-pedicellata/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Hoodia pilifera",
      "authorship": "(L.f.) Plowes",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001259415",
      "slug": "hoodia-pilifera",
      "photographs_found": 2,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Hoodia ruschii",
      "authorship": "Dinter",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001103622",
      "slug": "hoodia-ruschii",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Hoodia triebneri",
      "authorship": "(Nel) Bruyns",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001259418",
      "slug": "hoodia-triebneri",
      "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/hoodia/"
  }
}