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      "scientific_name": "Malacothrix fendleri",
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      "scientific_name": "Malacothrix floccifera",
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      "slug": "malacothrix-floccifera",
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/malacothrix-floccifera/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Malacothrix foliosa",
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/malacothrix-foliosa/"
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Malacothrix glabrata",
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      "wfo": "wfo-0000129970",
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/malacothrix-glabrata/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Malacothrix incana",
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      "slug": "malacothrix-incana",
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/malacothrix-incana/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Malacothrix indecora",
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      "wfo": "wfo-0000089257",
      "slug": "malacothrix-indecora",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Malacothrix insularis",
      "authorship": "Greene",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000035118",
      "slug": "malacothrix-insularis",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Malacothrix junakii",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Malacothrix phaeocarpa",
      "authorship": "W.S.Davis",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000114377",
      "slug": "malacothrix-phaeocarpa",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Malacothrix saxatilis",
      "authorship": "(Nutt.) Torr. & A.Gray",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000136876",
      "slug": "malacothrix-saxatilis",
      "photographs_found": 663,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/malacothrix-saxatilis/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Malacothrix similis",
      "authorship": "W.S.Davis & P.H.Raven",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000061148",
      "slug": "malacothrix-similis",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Malacothrix sonchoides",
      "authorship": "(Nutt.) Torr. & A.Gray",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000098825",
      "slug": "malacothrix-sonchoides",
      "photographs_found": 44,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/malacothrix-sonchoides/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Malacothrix sonorae",
      "authorship": "W.S.Davis & P.H.Raven",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000042753",
      "slug": "malacothrix-sonorae",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Malacothrix squalida",
      "authorship": "Greene",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000042087",
      "slug": "malacothrix-squalida",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Malacothrix stebbinsii",
      "authorship": "W.S.Davis & P.H.Raven",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000024606",
      "slug": "malacothrix-stebbinsii",
      "photographs_found": 8,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/malacothrix-stebbinsii/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Malacothrix torreyi",
      "authorship": "A.Gray",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000128609",
      "slug": "malacothrix-torreyi",
      "photographs_found": 18,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/malacothrix-torreyi/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Malacothrix xanti",
      "authorship": "A.Gray",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000089433",
      "slug": "malacothrix-xanti",
      "photographs_found": 3,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/malacothrix-xanti/"
    }
  ],
  "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/malacothrix/"
  }
}