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      "scientific_name": "Watsonia bachmannii",
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      "scientific_name": "Watsonia borbonica",
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/watsonia-borbonica/"
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Watsonia canaliculata",
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      "scientific_name": "Watsonia coccinea",
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/watsonia-coccinea/"
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Watsonia confusa",
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/watsonia-confusa/"
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      "scientific_name": "Watsonia densiflora",
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      "scientific_name": "Watsonia distans",
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      "url": null
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      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Watsonia elsiae",
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      "scientific_name": "Watsonia emiliae",
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      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Watsonia fourcadei",
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/watsonia-fourcadei/"
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Watsonia galpinii",
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/watsonia-galpinii/"
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Watsonia gladioloides",
      "authorship": "Schltr.",
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      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/watsonia-gladioloides/"
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      "scientific_name": "Watsonia humilis",
      "authorship": "Mill.",
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      "photographs_found": 15,
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/watsonia-humilis/"
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Watsonia hysterantha",
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      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Watsonia inclinata",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Watsonia knysnana",
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/watsonia-knysnana/"
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Watsonia laccata",
      "authorship": "(Jacq.) Ker Gawl.",
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      "slug": "watsonia-laccata",
      "photographs_found": 76,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/watsonia-laccata/"
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Watsonia latifolia",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/watsonia-lepida/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Watsonia longifolia",
      "authorship": "J.W.Mathews & L.Bolus",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000787293",
      "slug": "watsonia-longifolia",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Watsonia marginata",
      "authorship": "(L.f.) Ker Gawl.",
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      "slug": "watsonia-marginata",
      "photographs_found": 30,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/watsonia-marginata/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Watsonia marlothii",
      "authorship": "L.Bolus",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000787285",
      "slug": "watsonia-marlothii",
      "photographs_found": 4,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Watsonia meriana",
      "authorship": "(L.) Mill.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000787288",
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      "photographs_found": 271,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/watsonia-meriana/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Watsonia minima",
      "authorship": "Goldblatt",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000787211",
      "slug": "watsonia-minima",
      "photographs_found": 13,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/watsonia-minima/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Watsonia mtamvunae",
      "authorship": "Goldblatt",
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      "photographs_found": 3,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/watsonia-mtamvunae/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Watsonia occulta",
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      "url": null
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Watsonia paucifolia",
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      "photographs_found": 10,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/watsonia-paucifolia/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Watsonia pillansii",
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/watsonia-pillansii/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Watsonia pondoensis",
      "authorship": "Goldblatt",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Watsonia pulchra",
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      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/watsonia-pulchra/"
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Watsonia rogersii",
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      "slug": "watsonia-rogersii",
      "photographs_found": 4,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/watsonia-rogersii/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Watsonia rourkei",
      "authorship": "Goldblatt",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000787194",
      "slug": "watsonia-rourkei",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Watsonia schlechteri",
      "authorship": "L.Bolus",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000787306",
      "slug": "watsonia-schlechteri",
      "photographs_found": 120,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/watsonia-schlechteri/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Watsonia spectabilis",
      "authorship": "Schinz",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000787300",
      "slug": "watsonia-spectabilis",
      "photographs_found": 10,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/watsonia-spectabilis/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Watsonia stenosiphon",
      "authorship": "L.Bolus",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000787287",
      "slug": "watsonia-stenosiphon",
      "photographs_found": 61,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/watsonia-stenosiphon/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Watsonia stokoei",
      "authorship": "L.Bolus",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000787239",
      "slug": "watsonia-stokoei",
      "photographs_found": 5,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/watsonia-stokoei/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Watsonia strictiflora",
      "authorship": "Ker Gawl.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000787264",
      "slug": "watsonia-strictiflora",
      "photographs_found": 22,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/watsonia-strictiflora/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Watsonia strubeniae",
      "authorship": "L.Bolus",
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      "slug": "watsonia-strubeniae",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Watsonia tabularis",
      "authorship": "J.W.Mathews & L.Bolus",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000787260",
      "slug": "watsonia-tabularis",
      "photographs_found": 529,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/watsonia-tabularis/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Watsonia transvaalensis",
      "authorship": "Baker",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000787259",
      "slug": "watsonia-transvaalensis",
      "photographs_found": 3,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/watsonia-transvaalensis/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Watsonia vanderspuyae",
      "authorship": "L.Bolus",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000787278",
      "slug": "watsonia-vanderspuyae",
      "photographs_found": 28,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/watsonia-vanderspuyae/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Watsonia versfeldii",
      "authorship": "J.W.Mathews & L.Bolus",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000787290",
      "slug": "watsonia-versfeldii",
      "photographs_found": 1,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Watsonia vicschuettei",
      "authorship": "C.J.Potg. & I.M.Johnson",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001420922",
      "slug": "watsonia-vicschuettei",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Watsonia watsonioides",
      "authorship": "(Baker) Oberm.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000787250",
      "slug": "watsonia-watsonioides",
      "photographs_found": 63,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/watsonia-watsonioides/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Watsonia wilmaniae",
      "authorship": "J.W.Mathews & L.Bolus",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000787248",
      "slug": "watsonia-wilmaniae",
      "photographs_found": 4,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/watsonia-wilmaniae/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Watsonia wilmsii",
      "authorship": "L.Bolus",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000787247",
      "slug": "watsonia-wilmsii",
      "photographs_found": 2,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Watsonia zeyheri",
      "authorship": "L.Bolus",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000787245",
      "slug": "watsonia-zeyheri",
      "photographs_found": 7,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/watsonia-zeyheri/"
    }
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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/watsonia/"
  }
}