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      "scientific_name": "Melicytus crassifolius",
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    },
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      "scientific_name": "Melicytus dentatus",
      "authorship": "(R.Br. ex DC.) Molloy & Mabb.",
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      "slug": "melicytus-dentatus",
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/melicytus-dentatus/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Melicytus drucei",
      "authorship": "Molloy & B.D.Clarkson",
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/melicytus-drucei/"
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Melicytus fasciger",
      "authorship": "Gillespie",
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      "slug": "melicytus-fasciger",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
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      "scientific_name": "Melicytus flexuosus",
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      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/melicytus-flexuosus/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Melicytus lanceolatus",
      "authorship": "Hook.f.",
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      "slug": "melicytus-lanceolatus",
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      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/melicytus-lanceolatus/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Melicytus macrophyllus",
      "authorship": "A.Cunn.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000451836",
      "slug": "melicytus-macrophyllus",
      "photographs_found": 184,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/melicytus-macrophyllus/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Melicytus micranthus",
      "authorship": "(Hook.f.) Hook.f.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000451835",
      "slug": "melicytus-micranthus",
      "photographs_found": 133,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/melicytus-micranthus/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Melicytus novae-zelandiae",
      "authorship": "(A.Cunn.) P.S.Green",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001233436",
      "slug": "melicytus-novae-zelandiae",
      "photographs_found": 14,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/melicytus-novae-zelandiae/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Melicytus obovatus",
      "authorship": "(Kirk) Garn.-Jones",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001233437",
      "slug": "melicytus-obovatus",
      "photographs_found": 47,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/melicytus-obovatus/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Melicytus samoensis",
      "authorship": "(Christoph.) A.C.Sm.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000451865",
      "slug": "melicytus-samoensis",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Melicytus × ramilanceolatus",
      "authorship": "Allan",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000451866",
      "slug": "melicytus-ramilanceolatus",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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    "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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    "data": "CC BY 4.0",
    "attribution": "BotanAI, https://botanai.app/genus/melicytus/"
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}