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  "url": "https://botanai.app/genus/mesanthemum/",
  "id": {
    "slug": "mesanthemum"
  },
  "genus": "Mesanthemum",
  "family": "Eriocaulaceae",
  "family_url": "https://botanai.app/family/eriocaulaceae/",
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      "scientific_name": "Mesanthemum africanum",
      "authorship": "Moldenke",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000471468",
      "slug": "mesanthemum-africanum",
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      "url": null
    },
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      "scientific_name": "Mesanthemum albidum",
      "authorship": "Lecomte",
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      "slug": "mesanthemum-albidum",
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      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Mesanthemum alenicola",
      "authorship": "S.M.Phillips",
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      "slug": "mesanthemum-alenicola",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Mesanthemum angustitepalum",
      "authorship": "Kimp.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000471478",
      "slug": "mesanthemum-angustitepalum",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Mesanthemum auratum",
      "authorship": "Lecomte",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000471484",
      "slug": "mesanthemum-auratum",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Mesanthemum bennae",
      "authorship": "Jacq.-Fél.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000471488",
      "slug": "mesanthemum-bennae",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Mesanthemum cupricola",
      "authorship": "Kimp.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000471499",
      "slug": "mesanthemum-cupricola",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Mesanthemum glabrum",
      "authorship": "Kimp.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000471512",
      "slug": "mesanthemum-glabrum",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Mesanthemum jaegeri",
      "authorship": "Jacq.-Fél.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000471517",
      "slug": "mesanthemum-jaegeri",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Mesanthemum pilosum",
      "authorship": "Kimp.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000471532",
      "slug": "mesanthemum-pilosum",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Mesanthemum prescottianum",
      "authorship": "(Bong.) Körn.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000471544",
      "slug": "mesanthemum-prescottianum",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Mesanthemum pubescens",
      "authorship": "(Lam.) Körn.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000471552",
      "slug": "mesanthemum-pubescens",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Mesanthemum radicans",
      "authorship": "(Benth.) Körn.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000471555",
      "slug": "mesanthemum-radicans",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Mesanthemum reductum",
      "authorship": "H.E.Hess",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000471560",
      "slug": "mesanthemum-reductum",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Mesanthemum tuberosum",
      "authorship": "Lecomte",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000471584",
      "slug": "mesanthemum-tuberosum",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Mesanthemum variabile",
      "authorship": "Kimp.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000471588",
      "slug": "mesanthemum-variabile",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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  "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/mesanthemum/"
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}