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    "slug": "leersia"
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  "family": "Poaceae",
  "family_url": "https://botanai.app/family/poaceae/",
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      "scientific_name": "Leersia angustifolia",
      "authorship": "Prodoehl",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000877638",
      "slug": "leersia-angustifolia",
      "photographs_found": 0,
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      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Leersia denudata",
      "authorship": "Launert",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000877651",
      "slug": "leersia-denudata",
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      "url": null
    },
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      "scientific_name": "Leersia drepanothrix",
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      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Leersia friesii",
      "authorship": "Melderis",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Leersia hexandra",
      "authorship": "Sw.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000877667",
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      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/leersia-hexandra/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Leersia japonica",
      "authorship": "(Honda) Honda",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000877672",
      "slug": "leersia-japonica",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Leersia lenticularis",
      "authorship": "Michx.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000877674",
      "slug": "leersia-lenticularis",
      "photographs_found": 77,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/leersia-lenticularis/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Leersia ligularis",
      "authorship": "Trin.",
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      "slug": "leersia-ligularis",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Leersia monandra",
      "authorship": "Sw.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000877685",
      "slug": "leersia-monandra",
      "photographs_found": 13,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/leersia-monandra/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Leersia nematostachya",
      "authorship": "Launert",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000877686",
      "slug": "leersia-nematostachya",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Leersia oncothrix",
      "authorship": "C.E.Hubb.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000877687",
      "slug": "leersia-oncothrix",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Leersia oryzoides",
      "authorship": "(L.) Sw.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000877688",
      "slug": "leersia-oryzoides",
      "photographs_found": 281,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/leersia-oryzoides/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Leersia perrieri",
      "authorship": "(A.Camus) Launert",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000877703",
      "slug": "leersia-perrieri",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Leersia sayanuka",
      "authorship": "Ohwi",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000877704",
      "slug": "leersia-sayanuka",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Leersia stipitata",
      "authorship": "Bor",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000877707",
      "slug": "leersia-stipitata",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Leersia tisserantii",
      "authorship": "(A.Chev.) Launert",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000877708",
      "slug": "leersia-tisserantii",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Leersia triandra",
      "authorship": "C.E.Hubb.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000877709",
      "slug": "leersia-triandra",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Leersia virginica",
      "authorship": "Willd.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000877713",
      "slug": "leersia-virginica",
      "photographs_found": 196,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/leersia-virginica/"
    }
  ],
  "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/leersia/"
  }
}