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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/lessingia-arachnoidea/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Lessingia germanorum",
      "authorship": "Cham.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000002328",
      "slug": "lessingia-germanorum",
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      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/lessingia-germanorum/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Lessingia glandulifera",
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/lessingia-glandulifera/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Lessingia hololeuca",
      "authorship": "Greene",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000007626",
      "slug": "lessingia-hololeuca",
      "photographs_found": 24,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/lessingia-hololeuca/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Lessingia leptoclada",
      "authorship": "A.Gray",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000095397",
      "slug": "lessingia-leptoclada",
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      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/lessingia-leptoclada/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Lessingia micradenia",
      "authorship": "Greene",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000000771",
      "slug": "lessingia-micradenia",
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      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/lessingia-micradenia/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Lessingia nana",
      "authorship": "A.Gray",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000084042",
      "slug": "lessingia-nana",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Lessingia nemaclada",
      "authorship": "Greene",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000121853",
      "slug": "lessingia-nemaclada",
      "photographs_found": 9,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/lessingia-nemaclada/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Lessingia pectinata",
      "authorship": "Greene",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000127278",
      "slug": "lessingia-pectinata",
      "photographs_found": 8,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/lessingia-pectinata/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Lessingia ramulosa",
      "authorship": "A.Gray",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000132819",
      "slug": "lessingia-ramulosa",
      "photographs_found": 11,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/lessingia-ramulosa/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Lessingia tenuis",
      "authorship": "(A.Gray) Coville",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000125758",
      "slug": "lessingia-tenuis",
      "photographs_found": 14,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/lessingia-tenuis/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Lessingia virgata",
      "authorship": "A.Gray",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000079694",
      "slug": "lessingia-virgata",
      "photographs_found": 12,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/lessingia-virgata/"
    }
  ],
  "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/lessingia/"
  }
}