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  "url": "https://botanai.app/genus/thelocactus/",
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  "genus": "Thelocactus",
  "family": "Cactaceae",
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      "scientific_name": "Thelocactus bicolor",
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/thelocactus-bicolor/"
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      "scientific_name": "Thelocactus buekii",
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/thelocactus-buekii/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Thelocactus conothelos",
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      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Thelocactus hastifer",
      "authorship": "(Werderm. & Boed.) F.M.Knuth",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001256534",
      "slug": "thelocactus-hastifer",
      "photographs_found": 1,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Thelocactus hexaedrophorus",
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      "wfo": "wfo-0001234691",
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      "photographs_found": 9,
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/thelocactus-hexaedrophorus/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Thelocactus lausseri",
      "authorship": "Říha & Busek",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001256539",
      "slug": "thelocactus-lausseri",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Thelocactus leucacanthus",
      "authorship": "(Zucc. ex Pfeiff.) Britton & Rose",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001256540",
      "slug": "thelocactus-leucacanthus",
      "photographs_found": 8,
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/thelocactus-leucacanthus/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Thelocactus macdowellii",
      "authorship": "(Rebut ex Quehl) W.T.Marshall",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001256541",
      "slug": "thelocactus-macdowellii",
      "photographs_found": 1,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Thelocactus multicephalus",
      "authorship": "Halda & Panar. ex Halda",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001286340",
      "slug": "thelocactus-multicephalus",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Thelocactus rinconensis",
      "authorship": "(Poselg.) Britton & Rose",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001256542",
      "slug": "thelocactus-rinconensis",
      "photographs_found": 25,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/thelocactus-rinconensis/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Thelocactus setispinus",
      "authorship": "(Engelm.) E.F.Anderson",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001256544",
      "slug": "thelocactus-setispinus",
      "photographs_found": 182,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/thelocactus-setispinus/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Thelocactus tepelmemensis",
      "authorship": "T.J.Davis, H.M.Hern., G.D.Starr & Gómez-Hin.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001434414",
      "slug": "thelocactus-tepelmemensis",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Thelocactus tulensis",
      "authorship": "(Poselg.) Britton & Rose",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001256545",
      "slug": "thelocactus-tulensis",
      "photographs_found": 1,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Thelocactus × mirandus",
      "authorship": "Halda & Panar.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000415016",
      "slug": "thelocactus-mirandus",
      "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"
    }
  ],
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    "data": "CC BY 4.0",
    "attribution": "BotanAI, https://botanai.app/genus/thelocactus/"
  }
}