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  "url": "https://botanai.app/genus/melothria/",
  "id": {
    "slug": "melothria"
  },
  "genus": "Melothria",
  "family": "Cucurbitaceae",
  "family_url": "https://botanai.app/family/cucurbitaceae/",
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Melothria campestris",
      "authorship": "(Naudin) H.Schaef. & S.S.Renner",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000749810",
      "slug": "melothria-campestris",
      "photographs_found": 1,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Melothria cucumis",
      "authorship": "Vell.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000377094",
      "slug": "melothria-cucumis",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Melothria dulcis",
      "authorship": "Wunderlin",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001301042",
      "slug": "melothria-dulcis",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Melothria hirsuta",
      "authorship": "Cogn.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000377200",
      "slug": "melothria-hirsuta",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Melothria longituba",
      "authorship": "C.Jeffrey",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001301302",
      "slug": "melothria-longituba",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Melothria microcarpa",
      "authorship": "Shuttlew. ex Small",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001300999",
      "slug": "melothria-microcarpa",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Melothria pendula",
      "authorship": "L.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000377157",
      "slug": "melothria-pendula",
      "photographs_found": 1077,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/melothria-pendula/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Melothria pringlei",
      "authorship": "(S.Watson) Mart.Crov.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000377162",
      "slug": "melothria-pringlei",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Melothria scabra",
      "authorship": "Naudin",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000377170",
      "slug": "melothria-scabra",
      "photographs_found": 12,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/melothria-scabra/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Melothria schulziana",
      "authorship": "Mart.Crov.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001301229",
      "slug": "melothria-schulziana",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Melothria sphaerocarpa",
      "authorship": "(Cogn.) H.Schaef. & S.S.Renner",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001040390",
      "slug": "melothria-sphaerocarpa",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Melothria trilobata",
      "authorship": "Cogn.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000376932",
      "slug": "melothria-trilobata",
      "photographs_found": 5,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/melothria-trilobata/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Melothria warmingii",
      "authorship": "Cogn.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001300900",
      "slug": "melothria-warmingii",
      "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/melothria/"
  }
}