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  "url": "https://botanai.app/genus/leucothoe/",
  "id": {
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  },
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  "family": "Ericaceae",
  "family_url": "https://botanai.app/family/ericaceae/",
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      "scientific_name": "Leucothoe axillaris",
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/leucothoe-axillaris/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Leucothoe bahiensis",
      "authorship": "DC.",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Leucothoe cusickii",
      "authorship": "M.E.Jones",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000367609",
      "slug": "leucothoe-cusickii",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Leucothoe davisiae",
      "authorship": "Torr. ex A.Gray",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001047055",
      "slug": "leucothoe-davisiae",
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      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/leucothoe-davisiae/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Leucothoe floribunda",
      "authorship": "(Pursh) D.Don",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000364518",
      "slug": "leucothoe-floribunda",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Leucothoe fontanesiana",
      "authorship": "(Steud.) Sleumer",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001047859",
      "slug": "leucothoe-fontanesiana",
      "photographs_found": 223,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/leucothoe-fontanesiana/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Leucothoe griffithiana",
      "authorship": "C.B.Clarke",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001048329",
      "slug": "leucothoe-griffithiana",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Leucothoe hirta",
      "authorship": "(Willd.) DC.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000364522",
      "slug": "leucothoe-hirta",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Leucothoe ilicifolia",
      "authorship": "(Pers.) DC.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000364523",
      "slug": "leucothoe-ilicifolia",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Leucothoe intermedia",
      "authorship": "Meisn.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001230969",
      "slug": "leucothoe-intermedia",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Leucothoe katagherensis",
      "authorship": "DC.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000364512",
      "slug": "leucothoe-katagherensis",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Leucothoe keiskei",
      "authorship": "Miq.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000364575",
      "slug": "leucothoe-keiskei",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Leucothoe laxiflora",
      "authorship": "Meisn.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000364608",
      "slug": "leucothoe-laxiflora",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Leucothoe mariana",
      "authorship": "(L.) DC.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000364609",
      "slug": "leucothoe-mariana",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Leucothoe martii",
      "authorship": "Meisn.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000364612",
      "slug": "leucothoe-martii",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Leucothoe myrsinefolia",
      "authorship": "A.Rich.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001230643",
      "slug": "leucothoe-myrsinefolia",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Leucothoe rhomboidalis",
      "authorship": "A.Gray",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000364602",
      "slug": "leucothoe-rhomboidalis",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Leucothoe secunda",
      "authorship": "DC.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000364597",
      "slug": "leucothoe-secunda",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Leucothoe spicata",
      "authorship": "G.Don",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000358392",
      "slug": "leucothoe-spicata",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Leucothoe subcanescens",
      "authorship": "(DC.) Meisn.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001047039",
      "slug": "leucothoe-subcanescens",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    }
  ],
  "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/leucothoe/"
  }
}