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  "url": "https://botanai.app/genus/monsonia/",
  "id": {
    "slug": "monsonia"
  },
  "genus": "Monsonia",
  "family": "Geraniaceae",
  "family_url": "https://botanai.app/family/geraniaceae/",
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      "scientific_name": "Monsonia angustifolia",
      "authorship": "E.Mey.",
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/monsonia-angustifolia/"
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      "scientific_name": "Monsonia attenuata",
      "authorship": "Harv. & Sond.",
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/monsonia-attenuata/"
    },
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      "scientific_name": "Monsonia biflora",
      "authorship": "DC.",
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/monsonia-biflora/"
    },
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      "scientific_name": "Monsonia brevirostrata",
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/monsonia-brevirostrata/"
    },
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      "scientific_name": "Monsonia deserticola",
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      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Monsonia drudeana",
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      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Monsonia emarginata",
      "authorship": "(L.f.) L'Hér.",
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/monsonia-emarginata/"
    },
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      "scientific_name": "Monsonia galpinii",
      "authorship": "Schltr. ex R.Knuth",
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      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Monsonia glauca",
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      "wfo": "wfo-0001064090",
      "slug": "monsonia-glauca",
      "photographs_found": 7,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/monsonia-glauca/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Monsonia grandifolia",
      "authorship": "R.Knuth",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001064093",
      "slug": "monsonia-grandifolia",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Monsonia heliotropoides",
      "authorship": "Boiss.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000376380",
      "slug": "monsonia-heliotropoides",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Monsonia ignea",
      "authorship": "Schinz",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000376383",
      "slug": "monsonia-ignea",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Monsonia ignorata",
      "authorship": "Merxm. & A.Schreib.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001064097",
      "slug": "monsonia-ignorata",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Monsonia lanuginosa",
      "authorship": "R.Knuth",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001064098",
      "slug": "monsonia-lanuginosa",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Monsonia lavrani",
      "authorship": "(Halda) C.C.Walker",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000744270",
      "slug": "monsonia-lavrani",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Monsonia longipes",
      "authorship": "R.Knuth",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001064457",
      "slug": "monsonia-longipes",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Monsonia luederitziana",
      "authorship": "Focke & Schinz",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001064099",
      "slug": "monsonia-luederitziana",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Monsonia natalensis",
      "authorship": "R.Knuth",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001064101",
      "slug": "monsonia-natalensis",
      "photographs_found": 5,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/monsonia-natalensis/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Monsonia nivea",
      "authorship": "(Decne.) Webb",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000376388",
      "slug": "monsonia-nivea",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Monsonia parvifolia",
      "authorship": "Schinz",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001064102",
      "slug": "monsonia-parvifolia",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Monsonia praemorsa",
      "authorship": "E.Mey.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001064104",
      "slug": "monsonia-praemorsa",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Monsonia senegalensis",
      "authorship": "Guill. & Perr.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000376402",
      "slug": "monsonia-senegalensis",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Monsonia speciosa",
      "authorship": "L.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001064106",
      "slug": "monsonia-speciosa",
      "photographs_found": 144,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/monsonia-speciosa/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Monsonia spinosa",
      "authorship": "L'Hér.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001064117",
      "slug": "monsonia-spinosa",
      "photographs_found": 38,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/monsonia-spinosa/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Monsonia transvaalensis",
      "authorship": "R.Knuth",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001064107",
      "slug": "monsonia-transvaalensis",
      "photographs_found": 2,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Monsonia trilobata",
      "authorship": "Kers",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001064108",
      "slug": "monsonia-trilobata",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Monsonia umbellata",
      "authorship": "Harv.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000376392",
      "slug": "monsonia-umbellata",
      "photographs_found": 8,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/monsonia-umbellata/"
    }
  ],
  "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/monsonia/"
  }
}