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  "url": "https://botanai.app/genus/sorghum/",
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  },
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  "family": "Poaceae",
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      "authorship": "Lazarides",
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      "url": null
    },
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      "scientific_name": "Sorghum bicolor",
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/sorghum-bicolor/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Sorghum brachypodum",
      "authorship": "Lazarides",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000900208",
      "slug": "sorghum-brachypodum",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Sorghum bulbosum",
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      "slug": "sorghum-bulbosum",
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      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Sorghum burmahicum",
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      "wfo": "wfo-0000900218",
      "slug": "sorghum-burmahicum",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Sorghum controversum",
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      "wfo": "wfo-0000900278",
      "slug": "sorghum-controversum",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Sorghum ecarinatum",
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      "wfo": "wfo-0000900316",
      "slug": "sorghum-ecarinatum",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Sorghum exstans",
      "authorship": "Lazarides",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000900341",
      "slug": "sorghum-exstans",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Sorghum grande",
      "authorship": "Lazarides",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000900371",
      "slug": "sorghum-grande",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Sorghum halepense",
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      "wfo": "wfo-0000900376",
      "slug": "sorghum-halepense",
      "photographs_found": 2331,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/sorghum-halepense/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Sorghum interjectum",
      "authorship": "Lazarides",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000900396",
      "slug": "sorghum-interjectum",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Sorghum laxiflorum",
      "authorship": "F.M.Bailey",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000900408",
      "slug": "sorghum-laxiflorum",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Sorghum macrospermum",
      "authorship": "E.D.Garber",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000900425",
      "slug": "sorghum-macrospermum",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Sorghum matarankense",
      "authorship": "E.D.Garber & Snyder",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000900430",
      "slug": "sorghum-matarankense",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Sorghum nitidum",
      "authorship": "(Vahl) Pers.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000900469",
      "slug": "sorghum-nitidum",
      "photographs_found": 6,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/sorghum-nitidum/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Sorghum propinquum",
      "authorship": "(Kunth) Hitchc.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000900526",
      "slug": "sorghum-propinquum",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Sorghum virgatum",
      "authorship": "(Hack.) Stapf",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000900649",
      "slug": "sorghum-virgatum",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Sorghum × almum",
      "authorship": "Parodi",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000900121",
      "slug": "sorghum-almum",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Sorghum × derzhavinii",
      "authorship": "Tzvelev",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000900122",
      "slug": "sorghum-derzhavinii",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Sorghum × drummondii",
      "authorship": "(Nees ex Steud.) Millsp. & Chase",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000900123",
      "slug": "sorghum-drummondii",
      "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/sorghum/"
  }
}