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  "url": "https://botanai.app/genus/zoysia/",
  "id": {
    "slug": "zoysia"
  },
  "genus": "Zoysia",
  "family": "Poaceae",
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      "scientific_name": "Zoysia japonica",
      "authorship": "Steud.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000908046",
      "slug": "zoysia-japonica",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Zoysia macrantha",
      "authorship": "Desv.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000908051",
      "slug": "zoysia-macrantha",
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      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/zoysia-macrantha/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Zoysia macrostachya",
      "authorship": "Franch. & Sav.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000908053",
      "slug": "zoysia-macrostachya",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Zoysia matrella",
      "authorship": "(L.) Merr.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000908055",
      "slug": "zoysia-matrella",
      "photographs_found": 31,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/zoysia-matrella/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Zoysia minima",
      "authorship": "(Colenso) Zotov",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000908062",
      "slug": "zoysia-minima",
      "photographs_found": 55,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/zoysia-minima/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Zoysia pauciflora",
      "authorship": "Mez",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000908064",
      "slug": "zoysia-pauciflora",
      "photographs_found": 9,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/zoysia-pauciflora/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Zoysia seslerioides",
      "authorship": "(Balansa) Clayton & F.R.Richardson",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000908073",
      "slug": "zoysia-seslerioides",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Zoysia sinica",
      "authorship": "Hance",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000908075",
      "slug": "zoysia-sinica",
      "photographs_found": 3,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/zoysia-sinica/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Zoysia × forbesiana",
      "authorship": "Traub",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000908039",
      "slug": "zoysia-forbesiana",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Zoysia × hondana",
      "authorship": "Ohwi",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000908040",
      "slug": "zoysia-hondana",
      "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/zoysia/"
  }
}