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      "scientific_name": "Ptychosperma furcatum",
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      "scientific_name": "Ptychosperma gracile",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Ptychosperma keiense",
      "authorship": "(Becc.) Becc. ex Martelli",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000288796",
      "slug": "ptychosperma-keiense",
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      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Ptychosperma lauterbachii",
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      "slug": "ptychosperma-lauterbachii",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Ptychosperma lineare",
      "authorship": "(Burret) Burret",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000288804",
      "slug": "ptychosperma-lineare",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
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      "scientific_name": "Ptychosperma mambare",
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      "wfo": "wfo-0000288814",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Ptychosperma microcarpum",
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      "wfo": "wfo-0000288816",
      "slug": "ptychosperma-microcarpum",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Ptychosperma mooreanum",
      "authorship": "Essig",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000288820",
      "slug": "ptychosperma-mooreanum",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Ptychosperma nicolai",
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      "wfo": "wfo-0000288824",
      "slug": "ptychosperma-nicolai",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Ptychosperma propinquum",
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      "wfo": "wfo-0000288843",
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      "photographs_found": 16,
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/ptychosperma-propinquum/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Ptychosperma pullenii",
      "authorship": "Essig",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000288844",
      "slug": "ptychosperma-pullenii",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Ptychosperma ramosissimum",
      "authorship": "Essig",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000288847",
      "slug": "ptychosperma-ramosissimum",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Ptychosperma rosselense",
      "authorship": "Essig",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000288849",
      "slug": "ptychosperma-rosselense",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Ptychosperma salomonense",
      "authorship": "Burret",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000288855",
      "slug": "ptychosperma-salomonense",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Ptychosperma sanderianum",
      "authorship": "Ridl.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000288856",
      "slug": "ptychosperma-sanderianum",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Ptychosperma schefferi",
      "authorship": "Becc. ex Martelli",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000288859",
      "slug": "ptychosperma-schefferi",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Ptychosperma tagulense",
      "authorship": "Essig",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000288867",
      "slug": "ptychosperma-tagulense",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Ptychosperma vestitum",
      "authorship": "Essig",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000288872",
      "slug": "ptychosperma-vestitum",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Ptychosperma waitianum",
      "authorship": "Essig",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000288875",
      "slug": "ptychosperma-waitianum",
      "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/ptychosperma/"
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}