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Type: Article
Published: 2016-11-07
Page range: 286–290
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Puya cahuachensis (Bromeliaceae, Puyopsis), a new species from Southern Peru

Laboratorio de Botánica, Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad CEU San Pablo, P.O. Box 67, 28660-Boadilla del Monte, Madrid, Spain.
Laboratorio de Botánica, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud (Farmacia), Universidad Privada Antonio Guillermo Urrelo (UPAGU), José Sabogal 913, Cajamarca, Perú
Laboratorio de Botánica, Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad CEU San Pablo, P.O. Box 67, 28660- Boadilla del Monte, Madrid, Spain.
Estudios Fitogeográficos del Perú, Sánchez Cerro 219, Manuel Prado, Paucarpata, Arequipa, Perú.
Flora Neotropics rocky areas taxonomy volcanoes Monocots

Abstract

A new species, Puya cahuachensis, is described and illustrated. It can be distinguished from its closely related species P. weberbaueri by the longer leaves with retrorse brown spines, erect peduncles, a lax inflorescence with long subcylindrical spirally arranged branches exceeding primary bracts, an inflorescence with a soft white woolly pubescence that does not fully mask the greyish colour of the rachis, and greenish bracts and sepals at anthesis.