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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/nigella-arvensis/"
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      "scientific_name": "Nigella bucharica",
      "authorship": "Schipcz.",
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      "scientific_name": "Nigella degenii",
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      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Nigella deserti",
      "authorship": "Boiss.",
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      "scientific_name": "Nigella doerfleri",
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      "url": null
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Nigella elata",
      "authorship": "Boiss.",
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      "slug": "nigella-elata",
      "photographs_found": 6,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/nigella-elata/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Nigella fumariaefola",
      "authorship": "Kotschy",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000380658",
      "slug": "nigella-fumariaefola",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Nigella gallica",
      "authorship": "Jord.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000380704",
      "slug": "nigella-gallica",
      "photographs_found": 6,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/nigella-gallica/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Nigella hispanica",
      "authorship": "L.",
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      "slug": "nigella-hispanica",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
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      "scientific_name": "Nigella icarica",
      "authorship": "Strid",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000380696",
      "slug": "nigella-icarica",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Nigella integrifolia",
      "authorship": "Regel",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000380694",
      "slug": "nigella-integrifolia",
      "photographs_found": 2,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Nigella koyuncui",
      "authorship": "Dönmez & Uğurlu",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001342864",
      "slug": "nigella-koyuncui",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
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      "scientific_name": "Nigella lancifolia",
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      "wfo": "wfo-0000380719",
      "slug": "nigella-lancifolia",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Nigella nigellastrum",
      "authorship": "(L.) Willk.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000380722",
      "slug": "nigella-nigellastrum",
      "photographs_found": 8,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/nigella-nigellastrum/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Nigella orientalis",
      "authorship": "L.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000380711",
      "slug": "nigella-orientalis",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Nigella oxypetala",
      "authorship": "Boiss.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000380709",
      "slug": "nigella-oxypetala",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Nigella papillosa",
      "authorship": "G.López",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000380708",
      "slug": "nigella-papillosa",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Nigella sativa",
      "authorship": "L.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000380671",
      "slug": "nigella-sativa",
      "photographs_found": 3,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/nigella-sativa/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Nigella segetalis",
      "authorship": "M.Bieb.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000380670",
      "slug": "nigella-segetalis",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Nigella stellaris",
      "authorship": "Boiss.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000380669",
      "slug": "nigella-stellaris",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Nigella stricta",
      "authorship": "Strid",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000380668",
      "slug": "nigella-stricta",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Nigella turcica",
      "authorship": "Dönmez & Mutlu",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000380663",
      "slug": "nigella-turcica",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Nigella unguicularis",
      "authorship": "(Poir.) Spenn.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000380661",
      "slug": "nigella-unguicularis",
      "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/nigella/"
  }
}