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  "url": "https://botanai.app/genus/saccharum/",
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  },
  "genus": "Saccharum",
  "family": "Poaceae",
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Saccharum angustifolium",
      "authorship": "(Nees) Trin.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000896529",
      "slug": "saccharum-angustifolium",
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/saccharum-angustifolium/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Saccharum beccarii",
      "authorship": "(Stapf) Cope",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000896546",
      "slug": "saccharum-beccarii",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Saccharum filifolium",
      "authorship": "Steud.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000896596",
      "slug": "saccharum-filifolium",
      "photographs_found": 5,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/saccharum-filifolium/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Saccharum formosanum",
      "authorship": "(Stapf) Ohwi",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000896600",
      "slug": "saccharum-formosanum",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Saccharum griffithii",
      "authorship": "Munro ex Aitch.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000896611",
      "slug": "saccharum-griffithii",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Saccharum intermedium",
      "authorship": "Welker & Peichoto",
      "wfo": "wfo-1000048169",
      "slug": "saccharum-intermedium",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Saccharum kajkaiense",
      "authorship": "(Melderis) Melderis",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000896629",
      "slug": "saccharum-kajkaiense",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Saccharum longesetosum",
      "authorship": "(Andersson) V.Naray. ex Bor",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001099100",
      "slug": "saccharum-longesetosum",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Saccharum longisetosum",
      "authorship": "Nayaran. ex Bor",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000896636",
      "slug": "saccharum-longisetosum",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Saccharum maximum",
      "authorship": "(Brongn.) Trin.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000896643",
      "slug": "saccharum-maximum",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Saccharum officinarum",
      "authorship": "L.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000896660",
      "slug": "saccharum-officinarum",
      "photographs_found": 26,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/saccharum-officinarum/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Saccharum robustum",
      "authorship": "E.W.Brandes & Jeswiet ex Grassl",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000896713",
      "slug": "saccharum-robustum",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Saccharum sikkimense",
      "authorship": "(Hook.f.) V.Naray. ex Bor",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000896727",
      "slug": "saccharum-sikkimense",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Saccharum sinense",
      "authorship": "Roxb.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000896729",
      "slug": "saccharum-sinense",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Saccharum spontaneum",
      "authorship": "L.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000896738",
      "slug": "saccharum-spontaneum",
      "photographs_found": 200,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/saccharum-spontaneum/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Saccharum stewartii",
      "authorship": "Rajesw., R.R.Rao & Arti Garg",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000896751",
      "slug": "saccharum-stewartii",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Saccharum velutinum",
      "authorship": "(Holttum) Cope",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000896762",
      "slug": "saccharum-velutinum",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Saccharum wardii",
      "authorship": "(Bor) Bor ex Cope",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000896767",
      "slug": "saccharum-wardii",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Saccharum williamsii",
      "authorship": "(Bor) Bor ex Cope",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000896769",
      "slug": "saccharum-williamsii",
      "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/saccharum/"
  }
}