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  "id": {
    "slug": "mecardonia"
  },
  "genus": "Mecardonia",
  "family": "Plantaginaceae",
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      "scientific_name": "Mecardonia acuminata",
      "authorship": "(Walter) Small",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001136802",
      "slug": "mecardonia-acuminata",
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      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/mecardonia-acuminata/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Mecardonia berroi",
      "authorship": "Marchesi",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001251579",
      "slug": "mecardonia-berroi",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Mecardonia exilis",
      "authorship": "(Brandegee) Pennell",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001248414",
      "slug": "mecardonia-exilis",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Mecardonia grandiflora",
      "authorship": "(Benth.) Pennell",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001251592",
      "slug": "mecardonia-grandiflora",
      "photographs_found": 1,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Mecardonia kamogawae",
      "authorship": "Greppi & J.C.Hagiw.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001332745",
      "slug": "mecardonia-kamogawae",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Mecardonia procumbens",
      "authorship": "(Mill.) Small",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000451355",
      "slug": "mecardonia-procumbens",
      "photographs_found": 592,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/mecardonia-procumbens/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Mecardonia pubescens",
      "authorship": "Rossow",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000451351",
      "slug": "mecardonia-pubescens",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Mecardonia reneeae",
      "authorship": "Greppi & M.M.Sosa",
      "wfo": "wfo-1000048512",
      "slug": "mecardonia-reneeae",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Mecardonia serpylloides",
      "authorship": "(Cham. & Schltdl.) Pennell",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001251597",
      "slug": "mecardonia-serpylloides",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Mecardonia vandellioides",
      "authorship": "(Kunth) Pennell",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001136805",
      "slug": "mecardonia-vandellioides",
      "photographs_found": 8,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/mecardonia-vandellioides/"
    }
  ],
  "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/mecardonia/"
  }
}