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    "slug": "mortonia"
  },
  "genus": "Mortonia",
  "family": "Celastraceae",
  "family_url": "https://botanai.app/family/celastraceae/",
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      "scientific_name": "Mortonia diffusa",
      "authorship": "Rose & Standl.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000376790",
      "slug": "mortonia-diffusa",
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      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Mortonia greggii",
      "authorship": "A.Gray",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001292671",
      "slug": "mortonia-greggii",
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      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/mortonia-greggii/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Mortonia latisepala",
      "authorship": "I.M.Johnst.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001276650",
      "slug": "mortonia-latisepala",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Mortonia palmeri",
      "authorship": "Hemsl.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001292561",
      "slug": "mortonia-palmeri",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Mortonia scabrella",
      "authorship": "A.Gray",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001292672",
      "slug": "mortonia-scabrella",
      "photographs_found": 33,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/mortonia-scabrella/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Mortonia sempervirens",
      "authorship": "A.Gray",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001292673",
      "slug": "mortonia-sempervirens",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Mortonia utahensis",
      "authorship": "(Coville) A.Nelson",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001292665",
      "slug": "mortonia-utahensis",
      "photographs_found": 177,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/mortonia-utahensis/"
    }
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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"
    }
  ],
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    "data": "CC BY 4.0",
    "attribution": "BotanAI, https://botanai.app/genus/mortonia/"
  }
}