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The genus Puya is in the family Bromeliaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Puya

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See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source	Date supplied	Infra. rec.
Puya adscendens L.B.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya aequatorialis André	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya alata L.B.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya alba L.B.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya alpestris (Poepp.) Gay	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya alpicola L.B.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya angelensis E.Gross & Rauh	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya angulonis L.B.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya angusta L.B.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya antioquensis L.B.Sm. & Read	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya araneosa L.B.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya argentea L.B.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya aristeguietae L.B.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya assurgens L.B.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya atra L.B.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya barkleyana L.B.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya bermejana S.E.Gómez, Slanis & A.Grau	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya berteroana Mez	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya berteroniana Mez	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18
Puya bicolor Mez	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya boliviensis Baker	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya boopiensis R.Vásquez, Ibisch & R.Lara	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya boyacana Cuatrec.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya brachystachya (Baker) Mez	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya brackeana Manzan. & W.Till	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya bravoi Aráoz & A.Grau	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya brittoniana Baker	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya cajasensis Manzan. & W.Till	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya cardenasii L.B.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya cardonae L.B.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya casmichensis L.B.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya castellanosii L.B.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya cerrateana L.B.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya chilensis Molina	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya claudiae Ibisch, R.Vásquez & E.Gross	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya clava-herculis Mez & Sodiro	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya cleefii L.B.Sm. & Read	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya cochabambensis R.Vásquez & Ibisch	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya coerulea Lindl.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23	3
Puya commixta L.B.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya compacta L.B.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya coriacea L.B.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya cristata L.B.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya cryptantha Cuatrec.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya ctenorhyncha L.B.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya cuatrecasasii L.B.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya cuevae Manzan. & W.Till	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya cylindrica Mez	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya dasylirioides Standl.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya densiflora Harms	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya depauperata L.B.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya dichroa L.B.Sm. & Read	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya dodsonii Manzan. & W.Till	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya dolichostrobila Harms	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya donneriana R.Vásquez, Altam. & Ibisch	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya dyckioides (Baker) Mez	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya edulis E.Morren	Unresolved		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya elviragrossiae R.Vásquez & Ibisch	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya entre-riosensis Ibisch & E.Gross	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya erlenbachia Ibisch & R. Vásquez	Unresolved		TRO	2012-04-18
Puya erlenbachiana Ibisch & R.Vásquez	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya eryngioides André	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya exigua Mez	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya exuta L.B.Sm. & Read	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya fastuosa Mez	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya ferox Mez	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya ferreyrae L.B.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya ferruginea (Ruiz & Pav.) L.B.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya fiebrigii Mez	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya floccosa (Linden) E.Morren ex Mez	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya fosteriana L.B.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya fulgens L.B.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya furfuracea (Willd.) L.B.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya gargantae L.B.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya gerd-muelleri W.Weber	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya gerdae W.Weber	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya gigas André	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya gilmartiniae G.S.Varad. & A.R.Flores	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya glabrescens L.B.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya glandulosa L.B.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya glareosa L.B.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya glaucovirens Mez	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya glomerifera Mez & Sodiro	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya goudotiana Mez	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya gracilis L.B.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya grafii Rauh	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya grandidens Mez	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya grantii L.B.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya grubbii L.B.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya gutteana W.Weber	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya hamata L.B.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya harmsii (A.Cast.) A.Cast.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya herrerae Harms	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya herzogii Wittm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya hirtzii Manzan. & W.Till	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya hofstenii Mez	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya horrida L.B.Sm. & Read	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya hortensis L.B.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya hromadnikii Rauh	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya huancavelicae L.B.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya humilis Mez	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya hutchisonii L.B.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya ibischii R.Vásquez	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya iltisiana L.B.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya isabellina Mez	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya joergensenii H.Luther	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya killipii Cuatrec.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya kuntzeana Mez	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya laccata Mez	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya lanata (Kunth) Schult. & Schult.f.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya lanuginosa (Ruiz & Pav.) Schult. & Schult.f.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya larae R.Vásquez & Ibisch	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya lasiopoda L.B.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya laxa L.B.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya lehmanniana L.B.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya leptostachya L.B.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya lilloi A.Cast.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya lineata Mez	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya llatensis L.B.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya lokischmidtiae R.Vásquez & Ibisch	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya longisepala Mez	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya longispina Manzan. & W.Till	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya longistyla Mez	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya lopezii L.B.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya × loxensis Manzan. & W.Till	Unresolved		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya lutheri W.Till	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya macbridei L.B.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya macropoda L.B.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya macrostachys A. Dietr.	Unresolved		TRO	2012-04-18
Puya macrura Mez	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya maculata L.B.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya mariae L.B.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya medica L.B.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya membranacea L.B.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya meziana Wittm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya micrantha Mez	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya mima L.B.Sm. & Read	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya minima L.B.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya mirabilis (Mez) L.B.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya mitis Mez	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya mollis Baker ex Mez	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya mucronata Manzan.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya nana Wittm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya navarroana Manzan. & W.Till	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya nigrescens L.B.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya nitida Mez	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya nivalis Baker	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya novarae G.S.Varad. ex Gómez Rom. & A.Grau	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya nutans L.B.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya obconica L.B.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya occidentalis L.B.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya ochroleuca Betancur & Callejas	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya olivacea Wittm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya oxyantha Mez	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya pachyphylla R.Vásquez & Ibisch	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya parviflora L.B.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya pastoensis André	Unresolved		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya pattersoniae Manzan. & W.Till	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya paupera Mez	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya pearcei (Baker) Mez	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya penduliflora L.B.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya pichinchae Mez & Sodiro	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya pitcairnioides L.B.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya pizarroana R.Vásquez, Ibisch & S.Beck	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya ponderosa L.B.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya potosina L.B.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya pratensis L.B.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya prosanae Ibisch & E.Gross	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya pseudoeryngioides H.Luther	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya pumila Ravenna	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya pusilla H.E.Luther	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya pygmaea L.B.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya pyramidata (Ruiz & Pav.) Schult. & Schult.f.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya raimondii Harms	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya ramonii L.B.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya ramosa J.St.-Hil.	Unresolved		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya ramosa L.B.Sm.	Unresolved		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya rauhii L.B.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya reducta L.B.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya reflexiflora Mez	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya retrorsa Gilmartin	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya riparia L.B.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya robin-fosteri G.S.Varad. & H.E.Luther	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya roezlii E.Morren	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya roldanii Betancur & Callejas	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya roseana L.B.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya rusbyi (Baker) Mez	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya sagasteguii L.B.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya sanctae-crucis (Baker) L.B.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya sanctae-martae L.B.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya santanderensis Cuatrec.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya santosii Cuatrec.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya secunda L.B.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya sehuencasensis R.Vásquez, Ibisch & R.Lara	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya serranoensis Rauh	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya silvae-baccae L.B.Sm. & Read	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya simulans L.B.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya smithii A.Cast.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya sodiroana Mez	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya solomonii G.S.Varad.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya spathacea (Griseb.) Mez	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya stenothyrsa (Baker) Mez	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya stipitata L.B.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya strobilantha Mez	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya textoragicolae W.Weber	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya thomasiana André	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya tillii Manzan.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya tovariana L.B.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya trianae Baker	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya tristis L.B.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya trollii L.B.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya tuberosa Mez	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya tunarensis Mez	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya tyleriana Sagást., Zapata & M.O.Dillon	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya ugentiana L.B.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya ultima L.B.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya valida L.B.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya vallo-grandensis Rauh	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya vargasiana L.B.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya vasquezii Ibisch & E.Gross	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya venezuelana L.B.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya venusta (Baker) Phil.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya vervoorstii Gómez Rom. & A.Grau	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya vestita André	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya volcanensis A.Cast.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya waist L.B. Sm.	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18
Puya weberbaueri Mez	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya weberiana E.Morren ex Mez	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya weddelliana (Baker) Mez	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya werneriana Read & L.B.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya westii L.B.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya wrightii L.B.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya wurdackii L.B.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Puya yakespala A.Cast.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23

Statistics

The Plant List includes 331 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Puya. Of these 227 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 22 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Puya. We do not intend The Plant List to be complete for names of infraspecific rank. These are primarily included because names of species rank are synonyms of accepted infraspecific names.

Species names

The status of the 331 species names for the genus Puya recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	227	68.6%
◕	Synonym	97	29.3%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	7	2.1%

All names

The status of the 353 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Puya recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	230	65.2%
◕	Synonym	116	32.9%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	7	2.0%

Of the species names,

• 6 are recorded as invalid
• 4 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 331 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Puya, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	225	93	0	0	318	96.1%
	Medium confidence	2	4	0	0	6	1.8%
	Low confidence	0	0	0	7	7	2.1%

The source of the species name records found in The Plant List for the genus Puya is as follows: