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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/zostera-capensis/"
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      "scientific_name": "Zostera capricorni",
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/zostera-capricorni/"
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      "scientific_name": "Zostera caulescens",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Zostera japonica",
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/zostera-japonica/"
    },
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      "scientific_name": "Zostera marina",
      "authorship": "L.",
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/zostera-marina/"
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Zostera mucronata",
      "authorship": "Hartog",
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      "slug": "zostera-mucronata",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Zostera muelleri",
      "authorship": "Irmisch ex Asch.",
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      "slug": "zostera-muelleri",
      "photographs_found": 43,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/zostera-muelleri/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Zostera nigricaulis",
      "authorship": "(J.Kuo) S.W.L.Jacobs & Les",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000914758",
      "slug": "zostera-nigricaulis",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
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      "scientific_name": "Zostera noltii",
      "authorship": "Hornem.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000770324",
      "slug": "zostera-noltii",
      "photographs_found": 82,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/zostera-noltii/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Zostera novazelandica",
      "authorship": "Setch.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000752318",
      "slug": "zostera-novazelandica",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Zostera polychlamys",
      "authorship": "(J.Kuo) S.W.L.Jacobs & Les",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000914759",
      "slug": "zostera-polychlamys",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Zostera tasmanica",
      "authorship": "M.Martens ex Asch.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000770332",
      "slug": "zostera-tasmanica",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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    "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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    "attribution": "BotanAI, https://botanai.app/genus/zostera/"
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