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  "schema_version": 1,
  "url": "https://botanai.app/genus/lygodesmia/",
  "id": {
    "slug": "lygodesmia"
  },
  "genus": "Lygodesmia",
  "family": "Asteraceae",
  "family_url": "https://botanai.app/family/asteraceae/",
  "accepted_species": 5,
  "documented_species": 4,
  "species": [
    {
      "scientific_name": "Lygodesmia aphylla",
      "authorship": "(Nutt.) DC.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000120590",
      "slug": "lygodesmia-aphylla",
      "photographs_found": 248,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/lygodesmia-aphylla/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Lygodesmia grandiflora",
      "authorship": "(Nutt.) Torr. & A.Gray",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000000722",
      "slug": "lygodesmia-grandiflora",
      "photographs_found": 6,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/lygodesmia-grandiflora/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Lygodesmia juncea",
      "authorship": "(Pursh) Sweet",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000041463",
      "slug": "lygodesmia-juncea",
      "photographs_found": 182,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/lygodesmia-juncea/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Lygodesmia ramosissima",
      "authorship": "Greenm.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000040198",
      "slug": "lygodesmia-ramosissima",
      "photographs_found": 2,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Lygodesmia texana",
      "authorship": "(Torr. & A.Gray) Greene ex Small",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000024461",
      "slug": "lygodesmia-texana",
      "photographs_found": 476,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/lygodesmia-texana/"
    }
  ],
  "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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    "attribution": "BotanAI, https://botanai.app/genus/lygodesmia/"
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}