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  "family": "Hydrocharitaceae",
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      "scientific_name": "Vallisneria americana",
      "authorship": "Michx.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000770230",
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      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/vallisneria-americana/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Vallisneria anhuiensis",
      "authorship": "X.S.Shen",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000770233",
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      "url": null
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/vallisneria-australis/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Vallisneria caulescens",
      "authorship": "F.M.Bailey & F.Muell.",
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      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Vallisneria denseserrulata",
      "authorship": "(Makino) Makino",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000770239",
      "slug": "vallisneria-denseserrulata",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
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      "scientific_name": "Vallisneria erecta",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Vallisneria gracilis",
      "authorship": "F.M.Bailey",
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      "slug": "vallisneria-gracilis",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Vallisneria jacobsii",
      "authorship": "A.P.Martin & D.N.Wilson",
      "wfo": "wfo-1000055201",
      "slug": "vallisneria-jacobsii",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Vallisneria longipedunculata",
      "authorship": "X.S.Shen",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000770247",
      "slug": "vallisneria-longipedunculata",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Vallisneria nana",
      "authorship": "R.Br.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000770250",
      "slug": "vallisneria-nana",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Vallisneria natans",
      "authorship": "(Lour.) H.Hara",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000770251",
      "slug": "vallisneria-natans",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Vallisneria neotropicalis",
      "authorship": "Vict.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000770255",
      "slug": "vallisneria-neotropicalis",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Vallisneria rubra",
      "authorship": "(Rendle) Les & S.W.L.Jacobs",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000837153",
      "slug": "vallisneria-rubra",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Vallisneria spinulosa",
      "authorship": "S.Z.Yan",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000770261",
      "slug": "vallisneria-spinulosa",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Vallisneria spiralis",
      "authorship": "L.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000770262",
      "slug": "vallisneria-spiralis",
      "photographs_found": 47,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/vallisneria-spiralis/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Vallisneria triptera",
      "authorship": "S.W.L.Jacobs & K.A.Frank",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000770266",
      "slug": "vallisneria-triptera",
      "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/vallisneria/"
  }
}