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  "family": "Cactaceae",
  "family_url": "https://botanai.app/family/cactaceae/",
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      "scientific_name": "Leucostele atacamensis",
      "authorship": "(Phil.) Schlumpb.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001431281",
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/leucostele-atacamensis/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Leucostele bolligeriana",
      "authorship": "(Mächler & Helmut Walter) Schlumpb.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001431282",
      "slug": "leucostele-bolligeriana",
      "photographs_found": 1,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Leucostele chiloensis",
      "authorship": "(Colla) Schlumpb.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001431283",
      "slug": "leucostele-chiloensis",
      "photographs_found": 93,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/leucostele-chiloensis/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Leucostele deserticola",
      "authorship": "(Werderm.) Schlumpb.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001431285",
      "slug": "leucostele-deserticola",
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      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/leucostele-deserticola/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Leucostele faundezii",
      "authorship": "(Albesiano) Schlumpb.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001434862",
      "slug": "leucostele-faundezii",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Leucostele litoralis",
      "authorship": "(Johow) P.C.Guerrero & Helmut Walter",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001431286",
      "slug": "leucostele-litoralis",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Leucostele nigripilis",
      "authorship": "(Phil.) P.C.Guerrero & Helmut Walter",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001431287",
      "slug": "leucostele-nigripilis",
      "photographs_found": 3,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/leucostele-nigripilis/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Leucostele pectinifera",
      "authorship": "(Albesiano) Schlumpb.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001434863",
      "slug": "leucostele-pectinifera",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Leucostele skottsbergii",
      "authorship": "(Backeb. ex Skottsb.) P.C.Guerrero & Helmut Walter",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001431289",
      "slug": "leucostele-skottsbergii",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Leucostele terscheckii",
      "authorship": "(J.Parm. ex Pfeiff.) Schlumpb.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001431290",
      "slug": "leucostele-terscheckii",
      "photographs_found": 65,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/leucostele-terscheckii/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Leucostele tunariensis",
      "authorship": "(Cárdenas) Schlumpb.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001431291",
      "slug": "leucostele-tunariensis",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Leucostele undulosa",
      "authorship": "(Albesiano) Schlumpb.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001434864",
      "slug": "leucostele-undulosa",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Leucostele werdermanniana",
      "authorship": "(Backeb.) Schlumpb.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001431292",
      "slug": "leucostele-werdermanniana",
      "photographs_found": 3,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/leucostele-werdermanniana/"
    }
  ],
  "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/leucostele/"
  }
}