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      "url": null
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      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/marsilea-drummondii/"
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      "scientific_name": "Marsilea ephippiocarpa",
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      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Marsilea exarata",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Marsilea fadeniana",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Marsilea farinosa",
      "authorship": "Launert",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001110762",
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      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/marsilea-farinosa/"
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Marsilea fenestrata",
      "authorship": "Launert",
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      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Marsilea gibba",
      "authorship": "A.Braun",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001128530",
      "slug": "marsilea-gibba",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Marsilea globulosa",
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      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Marsilea hirsuta",
      "authorship": "R.Br.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001247371",
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/marsilea-hirsuta/"
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Marsilea latzii",
      "authorship": "D.L.Jones",
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      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Marsilea macrocarpa",
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/marsilea-macrocarpa/"
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Marsilea macropoda",
      "authorship": "Engelm. ex A.Braun",
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/marsilea-macropoda/"
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Marsilea megalomanica",
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Marsilea minuta",
      "authorship": "L.",
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/marsilea-minuta/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Marsilea mollis",
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/marsilea-mollis/"
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Marsilea mutica",
      "authorship": "Mett.",
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      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/marsilea-mutica/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Marsilea nashii",
      "authorship": "Underw.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000147424",
      "slug": "marsilea-nashii",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Marsilea nubica",
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      "slug": "marsilea-nubica",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Marsilea oligospora",
      "authorship": "Goodd.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001110221",
      "slug": "marsilea-oligospora",
      "photographs_found": 3,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/marsilea-oligospora/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Marsilea owambo",
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      "wfo": "wfo-0001346255",
      "slug": "marsilea-owambo",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Marsilea polycarpa",
      "authorship": "Hook. & Grev.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001109026",
      "slug": "marsilea-polycarpa",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Marsilea pyriformis",
      "authorship": "Bouchart",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001315599",
      "slug": "marsilea-pyriformis",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Marsilea quadrata",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Marsilea quadrifolia",
      "authorship": "L.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001109027",
      "slug": "marsilea-quadrifolia",
      "photographs_found": 9,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/marsilea-quadrifolia/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Marsilea scalaripes",
      "authorship": "D.M.Johnson",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001115545",
      "slug": "marsilea-scalaripes",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Marsilea schelpeana",
      "authorship": "Launert",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001110768",
      "slug": "marsilea-schelpeana",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Marsilea strigosa",
      "authorship": "Willd.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001118472",
      "slug": "marsilea-strigosa",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Marsilea subangulata",
      "authorship": "A.Braun",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001286488",
      "slug": "marsilea-subangulata",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Marsilea subterranea",
      "authorship": "Leprieur; A.Br.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001276421",
      "slug": "marsilea-subterranea",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Marsilea unicornis",
      "authorship": "Launert",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001110769",
      "slug": "marsilea-unicornis",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Marsilea vestita",
      "authorship": "Hook. & Grev.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001109030",
      "slug": "marsilea-vestita",
      "photographs_found": 144,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/marsilea-vestita/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Marsilea villifolia",
      "authorship": "Bremek. & Oberm. ex Alston & Schelpe",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001110771",
      "slug": "marsilea-villifolia",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Marsilea villosa",
      "authorship": "Kaulf.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001109031",
      "slug": "marsilea-villosa",
      "photographs_found": 12,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/marsilea-villosa/"
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  "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/marsilea/"
  }
}