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  "$schema": "https://botanai.app/schema/genus-v1.json",
  "schema_version": 1,
  "url": "https://botanai.app/genus/mesomelaena/",
  "id": {
    "slug": "mesomelaena"
  },
  "genus": "Mesomelaena",
  "family": "Cyperaceae",
  "family_url": "https://botanai.app/family/cyperaceae/",
  "accepted_species": 5,
  "documented_species": 3,
  "species": [
    {
      "scientific_name": "Mesomelaena graciliceps",
      "authorship": "(C.B.Clarke) K.L.Wilson",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000471627",
      "slug": "mesomelaena-graciliceps",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Mesomelaena preissii",
      "authorship": "Nees",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000471638",
      "slug": "mesomelaena-preissii",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Mesomelaena pseudostygia",
      "authorship": "(Kük.) K.L.Wilson",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000471648",
      "slug": "mesomelaena-pseudostygia",
      "photographs_found": 12,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/mesomelaena-pseudostygia/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Mesomelaena stygia",
      "authorship": "(R.Br.) Nees",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000471662",
      "slug": "mesomelaena-stygia",
      "photographs_found": 3,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/mesomelaena-stygia/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Mesomelaena tetragona",
      "authorship": "(R.Br.) Benth.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000471695",
      "slug": "mesomelaena-tetragona",
      "photographs_found": 16,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/mesomelaena-tetragona/"
    }
  ],
  "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/mesomelaena/"
  }
}