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      "scientific_name": "Momordica cissoides",
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      "scientific_name": "Momordica cochinchinensis",
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      "scientific_name": "Momordica corymbifera",
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      "scientific_name": "Momordica denticulata",
      "authorship": "Miq.",
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      "scientific_name": "Momordica denudata",
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      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Momordica dioica",
      "authorship": "Roxb. ex Willd.",
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/momordica-dioica/"
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      "scientific_name": "Momordica dissecta",
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      "wfo": "wfo-0000377046",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Momordica enneaphylla",
      "authorship": "Cogn.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000377027",
      "slug": "momordica-enneaphylla",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Momordica foetida",
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      "scientific_name": "Momordica friesiorum",
      "authorship": "(Harms) C.Jeffrey",
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      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Momordica gilgiana",
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      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Momordica glabra",
      "authorship": "Zimm.",
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      "scientific_name": "Momordica henriquesii",
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      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Momordica humilis",
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/momordica-humilis/"
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      "scientific_name": "Momordica jeffreyana",
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      "wfo": "wfo-0000377066",
      "slug": "momordica-jeffreyana",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Momordica kirkii",
      "authorship": "(Hook.f.) C.Jeffrey",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001301116",
      "slug": "momordica-kirkii",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
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      "scientific_name": "Momordica leiocarpa",
      "authorship": "Gilg",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001301285",
      "slug": "momordica-leiocarpa",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Momordica littorea",
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      "wfo": "wfo-0001261899",
      "slug": "momordica-littorea",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Momordica macrosperma",
      "authorship": "(Cogn.) Chiov.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000377059",
      "slug": "momordica-macrosperma",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Momordica mossambica",
      "authorship": "H.Schaef.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000744267",
      "slug": "momordica-mossambica",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Momordica multiflora",
      "authorship": "Hook.f.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000376993",
      "slug": "momordica-multiflora",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Momordica obtusisepala",
      "authorship": "Keraudren",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000376996",
      "slug": "momordica-obtusisepala",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Momordica parvifolia",
      "authorship": "Cogn.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000376971",
      "slug": "momordica-parvifolia",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Momordica peteri",
      "authorship": "Zimm.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001301288",
      "slug": "momordica-peteri",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Momordica pterocarpa",
      "authorship": "Hochst.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001301281",
      "slug": "momordica-pterocarpa",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Momordica racemiflora",
      "authorship": "Cogn.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000377014",
      "slug": "momordica-racemiflora",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Momordica repens",
      "authorship": "Bremek.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001301118",
      "slug": "momordica-repens",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Momordica rostrata",
      "authorship": "Zimm.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001301289",
      "slug": "momordica-rostrata",
      "photographs_found": 3,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/momordica-rostrata/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Momordica rumphii",
      "authorship": "W.J.de Wilde",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000377004",
      "slug": "momordica-rumphii",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Momordica sahyadrica",
      "authorship": "Kattuk. & V.T.Antony",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000507650",
      "slug": "momordica-sahyadrica",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Momordica sessilifolia",
      "authorship": "Cogn.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001301287",
      "slug": "momordica-sessilifolia",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Momordica silvatica",
      "authorship": "Jongkind",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000377005",
      "slug": "momordica-silvatica",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Momordica spinosa",
      "authorship": "(Gilg) Chiov.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001301284",
      "slug": "momordica-spinosa",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Momordica subangulata",
      "authorship": "Blume",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000375891",
      "slug": "momordica-subangulata",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Momordica trifoliolata",
      "authorship": "Hook.f.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001300943",
      "slug": "momordica-trifoliolata",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Momordica welwitschii",
      "authorship": "Hook.f.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000376069",
      "slug": "momordica-welwitschii",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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    "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/momordica/"
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}