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  "url": "https://botanai.app/genus/mercurialis/",
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  "family": "Euphorbiaceae",
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      "scientific_name": "Mercurialis annua",
      "authorship": "L.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000241716",
      "slug": "mercurialis-annua",
      "photographs_found": 1138,
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/mercurialis-annua/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Mercurialis canariensis",
      "authorship": "Obbard & S.A.Harris",
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      "photographs_found": 7,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/mercurialis-canariensis/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Mercurialis corsica",
      "authorship": "Coss. & Kralik",
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      "slug": "mercurialis-corsica",
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      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Mercurialis elliptica",
      "authorship": "Lam.",
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      "slug": "mercurialis-elliptica",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Mercurialis huetii",
      "authorship": "Hanry",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000241752",
      "slug": "mercurialis-huetii",
      "photographs_found": 3,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/mercurialis-huetii/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Mercurialis leiocarpa",
      "authorship": "Siebold & Zucc.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000241755",
      "slug": "mercurialis-leiocarpa",
      "photographs_found": 36,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/mercurialis-leiocarpa/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Mercurialis longistipes",
      "authorship": "(Borbás) Baksay",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001272392",
      "slug": "mercurialis-longistipes",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Mercurialis ovata",
      "authorship": "Sternb. & Hoppe",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000241765",
      "slug": "mercurialis-ovata",
      "photographs_found": 22,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/mercurialis-ovata/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Mercurialis perennis",
      "authorship": "L.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000241769",
      "slug": "mercurialis-perennis",
      "photographs_found": 1907,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/mercurialis-perennis/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Mercurialis reverchonii",
      "authorship": "Rouy",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000241784",
      "slug": "mercurialis-reverchonii",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Mercurialis tomentosa",
      "authorship": "L.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000241796",
      "slug": "mercurialis-tomentosa",
      "photographs_found": 20,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/mercurialis-tomentosa/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Mercurialis × longifolia",
      "authorship": "Lam.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000241759",
      "slug": "mercurialis-longifolia",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Mercurialis × paxii",
      "authorship": "Graebn.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000241768",
      "slug": "mercurialis-paxii",
      "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"
    }
  ],
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    "data": "CC BY 4.0",
    "attribution": "BotanAI, https://botanai.app/genus/mercurialis/"
  }
}