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      "scientific_name": "Melianthus comosus",
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/melianthus-comosus/"
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Melianthus dregeanus",
      "authorship": "Sond.",
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      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Melianthus elongatus",
      "authorship": "Wijnands",
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      "slug": "melianthus-elongatus",
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      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/melianthus-elongatus/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Melianthus major",
      "authorship": "L.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001083806",
      "slug": "melianthus-major",
      "photographs_found": 540,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/melianthus-major/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Melianthus pectinatus",
      "authorship": "Harv.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001083807",
      "slug": "melianthus-pectinatus",
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      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/melianthus-pectinatus/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Melianthus villosus",
      "authorship": "Bolus",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001083811",
      "slug": "melianthus-villosus",
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/melianthus-villosus/"
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    "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."
  },
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    {
      "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/melianthus/"
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