page_title: Puya (plant)
section_title: Species
hierarchical_section_title: Puya (plant) / Species
caption_attribution_description: Español: Puya goudotiana, Páramo de Guasca, Colombia.
context_page_description: Puya is a genus of the botanical family Bromeliaceae. It is the sole genus of the subfamily Puyoideae, and is composed of 226 species. These terrestrial plants are native to the Andes Mountains of South America and southern Central America. Many of the species are monocarpic, with the parent plant dying after one flower and seed production event.
  The species Puya raimondii is notable as the largest species of bromeliad known, reaching 3 m tall in vegetative growth with a flower spike 9–10 m tall. The other species are also large, with the flower spikes mostly reaching 1–4 m tall.
  The name Puya was derived from the Mapuche Indian word meaning "point".
  The genus is commonly divided into two subgenera, Puya, containing eight species, and Puyopsis containing the remainder. The subgenera can be distinguished by the presence of a sterile inflorescence at the branch apex in Puya, which are fertile in Puyopsis.
context_section_description: Puya adscendens L.B. Smith
  Puya aequatorialis André
  P. a. var. albiflora André
  Puya alata L.B. Smith
  Puya alba L.B. Smith
  Puya alpestris (Poeppig) Gay
  Puya alpicola L.B. Smith
  Puya angelensis E. Gross & Rauh
  Puya angulonis L.B. Smith
  Puya angusta L.B. Smith
  Puya antioquiensis L.B. Smith & R.W. Read
  Puya araneosa L.B. Smith
  Puya argentea L.B. Smith
  Puya aristeguietae L.B. Smith
  Puya asplundii L.B. Smith
  Puya assurgens L.B. Smith
  Puya atra L.B. Smith
  Puya barkleyana L.B. Smith
  Puya bermejana Gómez, Slanis & Grau
  Puya berteroniana Mez
  Puya bicolor Mez
  Puya boliviensis Baker
  Puya boopiensis R. Vásquez, Ibisch & R. Lara
  Puya boyacana Cuatrecasas
  Puya brachystachya (Baker) Mez
  Puya brackeana Manzanares & W. Till
  Puya brittoniana Baker
  Puya cajasensis Manzanares & W. Till
  Puya cardenasii L.B. Smith
  Puya cardonae L.B. Smith
  Puya casmichensis L.B. Smith
  Puya castellanosii L.B. Smith
  Puya cerrateana L.B. Smith
  Puya chilensis Molina
  Puya claudiae Ibisch, R. Vásquez & E. Gross
  Puya clava-herculis Mez & Sodiro
  Puya cleefii L.B. Smith & R.W. Read
  Puya cochabambensis R. Vásquez & Ibisch
  Puya coerulea Lindley
  P. c. var. violacea (Brongniart) Smith
  P. c. var. monteroana (Smith & Looser) Smith & Looser
  P. c. var. intermedia (Smith & Looser) Smith & Looser
  Puya commixta L.B. Smith
  Puya compacta L.B. Smith
  Puya coriacea L.B. Smith
  Puya cristata L.B. Smith
  Puya cryptantha Cuatrecasas
  Puya ctenorhyncha L.B. Smith
  Puya cuatrecasasii L.B. Smith
  Puya cuevae Manzanares & W. Till
  Puya cylindrica Mez
  Puya dasylirioides Standley
  Puya densiflora Harms
  Puya depauperata L.B. Smith
  Puya dichroa L.B. Smith & R.W. Read
  Puya dodsonii Manzanares & W. Till
  Puya dolichostrobila Harms
  Puya dyckioides (Baker) Mez
  Puya elviragrossiae R. Vásquez & P.L. Ibisch
  Puya entre-riosensis Ibisch & E. Gross
  Puya erlenbachiana Ibisch & R. Vásquez
  Puya eryngioides André
  Puya exigua Mez
  Puya exuta L.B. Smith & R.W. Read
  Puya fastuosa Mez
  Puya ferox Mez
  Puya ferreyrae L.B. Smith
  Puya ferruginea (Ruiz & Pavón) L.B. Smith
  Puya fiebrigii Mez
  Puya floccosa (Linden) E. Morren
  P. f.  var. compacta L.B. Smith
  Puya fosteriana L.B. Smith
  Puya fulgens L.B. Smith
  Puya furfuracea (Willdenow) L.B. Smith
  Puya gargantae L.B. Smith
  Puya gerd-muelleri W. Weber
  Puya gerdae W. Weber
  Puya gigas André
  Puya gilmartiniae G.S. Varadarajan & Flores
  Puya glabrescens L.B. Smith
  Puya glandulosa L.B. Smith
  Puya glareosa L.B. Smith
  Puya glaucovirens Mez
  Puya glomerifera Mez & Sodiro
  Puya goudotiana Mez
  Puya gracilis L.B. Smith
  Puya grafii Rauh
  Puya grandidens Mez
  Puya grantii L.B. Smith
  Puya grubbii L.B. Smith
  Puya gutteana W. Weber
  Puya hamata L.B. Smith
  Puya harmsii (Castellanos) Castellanos
  Puya herrerae Harms
  Puya herzogii Wittmack
  Puya hirtzii Manzanares & W. Till
  Puya hofstenii Mez
  Puya horrida L.B. Smith & R.W. Read
  Puya hortensis L.B. Smith
  Puya hoxeyi Janeba
  Puya hromadnikii Rauh
  Puya huancavelicae L.B. Smith
  Puya humilis Mez
  Puya hutchisonii L.B. Smith
  Puya ibischii R. Vásquez
  Puya iltisiana L.B. Smith
  Puya isabellina Mez
  Puya joergensenii H. Luther
  Puya killipii Cuatrecasas
  Puya kuntzeana Mez
  Puya laccata Mez
  Puya lanata Kunth
  Puya lanuginosa (Ruiz & Pavón) Schultes f.
  Puya larae R. Vásquez & Ibisch
  Puya lasiopoda L.B. Smith
  Puya laxa L.B. Smith
  Puya lehmanniana L.B. Smith
  Puya leptostachya L.B. Smith
  Puya lilloi Castellanos
  Puya lineata Mez
  Puya llatensis L.B. Smith
  Puya lokischmidtiae R. Vásquez & Ibisch
  Puya longisepala Mez
  Puya longispina Manzanares & W. Till
  Puya longistyla Mez
  Puya lopezii L.B. Smith
  Puya × loxensis Manzanares & W. Till
  Puya lutheri W. Till
  Puya macbridei L.B. Smith
  P. m.  ssp. yungayensis W. Weber
  Puya macropoda L.B. Smith
  Puya macrura Mez
  Puya maculata L.B. Smith
  Puya mariae L.B. Smith
  Puya medica L.B. Smith
  Puya membranacea L.B. Smith
  Puya meziana Wittmack
  Puya micrantha Mez
  Puya mima L.B. Smith & R.W. Read
  Puya minima L.B. Smith
  Puya mirabilis (Mez) L.B. Smith
  Puya mitis Mez
  Puya mollis Baker
  Puya mucronata Manzanares
  Puya nana Wittmack
  Puya navarroana Manzanares & W. Till
  Puya nigrescens L.B. Smith
  Puya nitida Mez
  P. n.  var. glabrior L.B. Smith & R.W. Read
  Puya nival
caption: Puya goudotiana, Páramo of Guasca, Colombia
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