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  "url": "https://botanai.app/genus/roscoea/",
  "id": {
    "slug": "roscoea"
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  "genus": "Roscoea",
  "family": "Zingiberaceae",
  "family_url": "https://botanai.app/family/zingiberaceae/",
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      "scientific_name": "Roscoea alpina",
      "authorship": "Royle",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000523330",
      "slug": "roscoea-alpina",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Roscoea auriculata",
      "authorship": "K.Schum.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000523352",
      "slug": "roscoea-auriculata",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
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      "scientific_name": "Roscoea australis",
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      "wfo": "wfo-0000523363",
      "slug": "roscoea-australis",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Roscoea bhutanica",
      "authorship": "Ngamr.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000523374",
      "slug": "roscoea-bhutanica",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Roscoea brandisii",
      "authorship": "(King ex Baker) K.Schum.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000523416",
      "slug": "roscoea-brandisii",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Roscoea brevibracteata",
      "authorship": "Z.Y.Zhu",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000523428",
      "slug": "roscoea-brevibracteata",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Roscoea cangshanensis",
      "authorship": "M.H.Luo, X.F.Gao & H.H.Lin",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000810030",
      "slug": "roscoea-cangshanensis",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Roscoea capitata",
      "authorship": "Sm.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000523439",
      "slug": "roscoea-capitata",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Roscoea cautleyoides",
      "authorship": "Gagnep.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000523472",
      "slug": "roscoea-cautleyoides",
      "photographs_found": 2,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Roscoea debilis",
      "authorship": "Gagnep.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000523516",
      "slug": "roscoea-debilis",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Roscoea forrestii",
      "authorship": "Cowley",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000523583",
      "slug": "roscoea-forrestii",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Roscoea ganeshensis",
      "authorship": "Cowley & W.J.Baker",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000523594",
      "slug": "roscoea-ganeshensis",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Roscoea glaucifolia",
      "authorship": "F.J.Mou",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001343500",
      "slug": "roscoea-glaucifolia",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Roscoea humeana",
      "authorship": "Balf.f. & W.W.Sm.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000523616",
      "slug": "roscoea-humeana",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Roscoea kunmingensis",
      "authorship": "S.Q.Tong",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000523692",
      "slug": "roscoea-kunmingensis",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Roscoea megalantha",
      "authorship": "Tosh.Yoshida & R.Yangzom",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001426419",
      "slug": "roscoea-megalantha",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Roscoea nepalensis",
      "authorship": "Cowley",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000523745",
      "slug": "roscoea-nepalensis",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Roscoea ngainoi",
      "authorship": "A.A.Mao & Bhaumik",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000836635",
      "slug": "roscoea-ngainoi",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Roscoea praecox",
      "authorship": "K.Schum.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000523767",
      "slug": "roscoea-praecox",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Roscoea purpurea",
      "authorship": "Sm.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000523799",
      "slug": "roscoea-purpurea",
      "photographs_found": 18,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/roscoea-purpurea/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Roscoea schneideriana",
      "authorship": "(Loes.) Cowley",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000523865",
      "slug": "roscoea-schneideriana",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Roscoea scillifolia",
      "authorship": "(Gagnep.) Cowley",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000523875",
      "slug": "roscoea-scillifolia",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Roscoea tibetica",
      "authorship": "Batalin",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000523923",
      "slug": "roscoea-tibetica",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Roscoea tumjensis",
      "authorship": "Cowley",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000523957",
      "slug": "roscoea-tumjensis",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Roscoea wardii",
      "authorship": "Cowley",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000523968",
      "slug": "roscoea-wardii",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Roscoea × beesiana",
      "authorship": "Cowley & C.Whitehouse",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000914399",
      "slug": "roscoea-beesiana",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    }
  ],
  "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/roscoea/"
  }
}