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    "slug": "pediocactus"
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      "scientific_name": "Pediocactus bradyi",
      "authorship": "L.D.Benson",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001288308",
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      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/pediocactus-bradyi/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Pediocactus despainii",
      "authorship": "S.L.Welsh & Goodrich",
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      "slug": "pediocactus-despainii",
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      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Pediocactus knowltonii",
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      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Pediocactus nigrispinus",
      "authorship": "(Hochstätter) Hochstätter",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001255994",
      "slug": "pediocactus-nigrispinus",
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      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/pediocactus-nigrispinus/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Pediocactus paradinei",
      "authorship": "B.W.Benson",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001287012",
      "slug": "pediocactus-paradinei",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Pediocactus peeblesianus",
      "authorship": "(Croizat) L.D.Benson",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001288304",
      "slug": "pediocactus-peeblesianus",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Pediocactus sileri",
      "authorship": "(Engelm. ex J.M.Coult.) L.D.Benson",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001288303",
      "slug": "pediocactus-sileri",
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      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/pediocactus-sileri/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Pediocactus simpsonii",
      "authorship": "(Engelm.) Britton & Rose",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001287041",
      "slug": "pediocactus-simpsonii",
      "photographs_found": 295,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/pediocactus-simpsonii/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Pediocactus winkleri",
      "authorship": "K.D.Heil",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001288310",
      "slug": "pediocactus-winkleri",
      "photographs_found": 1,
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      "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/pediocactus/"
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}