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      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Leptochloa chloridiformis",
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      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Leptochloa ligulata",
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      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Leptochloa longa",
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      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Leptochloa malayana",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Leptochloa mucronata",
      "authorship": "(Michx.) Kunth",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000877889",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Leptochloa nealleyi",
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      "wfo": "wfo-0000877894",
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      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/leptochloa-nealleyi/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Leptochloa neesii",
      "authorship": "Benth.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000877895",
      "slug": "leptochloa-neesii",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Leptochloa panicea",
      "authorship": "(Retz.) Ohwi",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000877900",
      "slug": "leptochloa-panicea",
      "photographs_found": 27,
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/leptochloa-panicea/"
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      "scientific_name": "Leptochloa panicoides",
      "authorship": "(J.Presl) Hitchc.",
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      "slug": "leptochloa-panicoides",
      "photographs_found": 13,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/leptochloa-panicoides/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Leptochloa pluriflora",
      "authorship": "(E.Fourn.) P.M.Peterson & N.Snow",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001329276",
      "slug": "leptochloa-pluriflora",
      "photographs_found": 23,
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/leptochloa-pluriflora/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Leptochloa scabra",
      "authorship": "Nees",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000877928",
      "slug": "leptochloa-scabra",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Leptochloa simoniana",
      "authorship": "N.Snow",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000877931",
      "slug": "leptochloa-simoniana",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Leptochloa southwoodii",
      "authorship": "N.Snow & B.K.Simon",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000877932",
      "slug": "leptochloa-southwoodii",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Leptochloa squarrosa",
      "authorship": "Pilg.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000877934",
      "slug": "leptochloa-squarrosa",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Leptochloa srilankensis",
      "authorship": "N.Snow",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000877935",
      "slug": "leptochloa-srilankensis",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Leptochloa tectoneticola",
      "authorship": "(Backer) Jansen ex Veldkamp",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000877938",
      "slug": "leptochloa-tectoneticola",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Leptochloa virgata",
      "authorship": "(L.) P.Beauv.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000877946",
      "slug": "leptochloa-virgata",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Leptochloa viscida",
      "authorship": "(Scribn.) Beal",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000877957",
      "slug": "leptochloa-viscida",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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    "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/leptochloa/"
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}