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  "url": "https://botanai.app/genus/melinis/",
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  "family": "Poaceae",
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      "scientific_name": "Melinis ambigua",
      "authorship": "Hack.",
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      "url": null
    },
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      "url": null
    },
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      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Melinis ascendens",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Melinis biaristata",
      "authorship": "(Rendle) Stapf & C.E.Hubb.",
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      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Melinis drakensbergensis",
      "authorship": "(C.E.Hubb. & Schweick.) Clayton",
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      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Melinis effusa",
      "authorship": "(Rendle) Stapf",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000879527",
      "slug": "melinis-effusa",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Melinis gossweileri",
      "authorship": "C.E.Hubb.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000879535",
      "slug": "melinis-gossweileri",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Melinis kallimorpha",
      "authorship": "(Clayton) Zizka",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000879542",
      "slug": "melinis-kallimorpha",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Melinis longiseta",
      "authorship": "(A.Rich.) Zizka",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000879545",
      "slug": "melinis-longiseta",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Melinis macrochaeta",
      "authorship": "Stapf & C.E.Hubb.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000879547",
      "slug": "melinis-macrochaeta",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Melinis maroccana",
      "authorship": "(Maire & Sam.) M.B.Crespo, M.Á.Alonso & Mart.-Azorín",
      "wfo": "wfo-1000023612",
      "slug": "melinis-maroccana",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Melinis minutiflora",
      "authorship": "P.Beauv.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000879553",
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      "photographs_found": 122,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/melinis-minutiflora/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Melinis nerviglumis",
      "authorship": "(Franch.) Zizka",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000879571",
      "slug": "melinis-nerviglumis",
      "photographs_found": 110,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/melinis-nerviglumis/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Melinis repens",
      "authorship": "(Willd.) Zizka",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000879582",
      "slug": "melinis-repens",
      "photographs_found": 2043,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/melinis-repens/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Melinis reynaudioides",
      "authorship": "(C.E.Hubb.) Zizka",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000879587",
      "slug": "melinis-reynaudioides",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Melinis rupicola",
      "authorship": "(Rendle) Zizka",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000879590",
      "slug": "melinis-rupicola",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Melinis scabrida",
      "authorship": "(K.Schum.) Hack.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000879591",
      "slug": "melinis-scabrida",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Melinis subglabra",
      "authorship": "Mez",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000879598",
      "slug": "melinis-subglabra",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Melinis tanatricha",
      "authorship": "(Rendle) Zizka",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000879599",
      "slug": "melinis-tanatricha",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Melinis tenuissima",
      "authorship": "Stapf",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000879602",
      "slug": "melinis-tenuissima",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Melinis tomentosa",
      "authorship": "Rendle",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000879604",
      "slug": "melinis-tomentosa",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Melinis welwitschii",
      "authorship": "Rendle",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000879611",
      "slug": "melinis-welwitschii",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    }
  ],
  "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/melinis/"
  }
}