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      "scientific_name": "Lessertia candida",
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Lessertia capensis",
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Lessertia capitata",
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/lessertia-capitata/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Lessertia carnosa",
      "authorship": "Eckl. & Zeyh.",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Lessertia contracta",
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      "slug": "lessertia-contracta",
      "photographs_found": 0,
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      "url": null
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Lessertia cryptantha",
      "authorship": "Dinter",
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      "url": null
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Lessertia depressa",
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Lessertia diffusa",
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/lessertia-diffusa/"
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Lessertia distans",
      "authorship": "Burtt Davy",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000212616",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Lessertia dykei",
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      "slug": "lessertia-dykei",
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      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Lessertia emarginata",
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      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Lessertia eremicola",
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      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Lessertia excisa",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Lessertia falciformis",
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      "scientific_name": "Lessertia flanaganii",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Lessertia flexuosa",
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      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Lessertia frutescens",
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      "slug": "lessertia-frutescens",
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/lessertia-frutescens/"
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Lessertia fruticosa",
      "authorship": "Lindl.",
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      "scientific_name": "Lessertia glabricaulis",
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      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Lessertia globosa",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Lessertia harveyana",
      "authorship": "L.Bolus",
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      "slug": "lessertia-harveyana",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Lessertia herbacea",
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/lessertia-herbacea/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Lessertia humilis",
      "authorship": "(E.Phillips & R.A.Dyer) Goldblatt & J.C.Manning",
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      "slug": "lessertia-humilis",
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Lessertia incana",
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      "url": null
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Lessertia inflata",
      "authorship": "Harv.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000212633",
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      "photographs_found": 3,
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/lessertia-inflata/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Lessertia ingeliensis",
      "authorship": "M.Balkwill",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000363046",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Lessertia kensitii",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Lessertia lanata",
      "authorship": "Harv.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001053769",
      "slug": "lessertia-lanata",
      "photographs_found": 15,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/lessertia-lanata/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Lessertia macroflora",
      "authorship": "M.Balkwill",
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      "scientific_name": "Lessertia macrostachya",
      "authorship": "DC.",
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      "scientific_name": "Lessertia margaritacea",
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/lessertia-margaritacea/"
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Lessertia meyeri",
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Lessertia microcarpa",
      "authorship": "E.Mey.",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Lessertia miniata",
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Lessertia montana",
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      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Lessertia mossii",
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      "scientific_name": "Lessertia nana",
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      "scientific_name": "Lessertia obtusata",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Lessertia pappeana",
      "authorship": "Harv.",
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      "scientific_name": "Lessertia pauciflora",
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/lessertia-pauciflora/"
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Lessertia perennans",
      "authorship": "(Jacq.) DC.",
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/lessertia-perennans/"
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      "scientific_name": "Lessertia phillipsiana",
      "authorship": "Burtt Davy",
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      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Lessertia physodes",
      "authorship": "Eckl. & Zeyh.",
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      "slug": "lessertia-physodes",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
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      "scientific_name": "Lessertia prostrata",
      "authorship": "(Thunb.) DC.",
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      "slug": "lessertia-prostrata",
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      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Lessertia rigida",
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      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Lessertia sneeuwbergensis",
      "authorship": "Germish.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001260131",
      "slug": "lessertia-sneeuwbergensis",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Lessertia spinescens",
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Lessertia stricta",
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/lessertia-stricta/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Lessertia subumbellata",
      "authorship": "Harv.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000212658",
      "slug": "lessertia-subumbellata",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Lessertia sulcata",
      "authorship": "E.Mey.",
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      "slug": "lessertia-sulcata",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Lessertia tenuifolia",
      "authorship": "E.Mey.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000212659",
      "slug": "lessertia-tenuifolia",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Lessertia thodei",
      "authorship": "L.Bolus",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000212660",
      "slug": "lessertia-thodei",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Lessertia tomentosa",
      "authorship": "(Thunb.) DC.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000212661",
      "slug": "lessertia-tomentosa",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
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      "scientific_name": "Lessertia uniflora",
      "authorship": "B.-E.van Wyk",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001347414",
      "slug": "lessertia-uniflora",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Lessertia villosa",
      "authorship": "E.Mey.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000363031",
      "slug": "lessertia-villosa",
      "photographs_found": 2,
      "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."
  },
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      "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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    "attribution": "BotanAI, https://botanai.app/genus/lessertia/"
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