Puya (plant)
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| Puya berteroniana | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Clade: | Commelinids |
| Order: | Poales |
| Family: | Bromeliaceae |
| Subfamily: | Puyoideae Givnish |
| Genus: | Puya Molina |
| Type species | |
| Puya chilensis | |
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Puya is a genus of the botanical family Bromeliaceae. It is the sole genus of the subfamily Puyoideae, and is composed of 226 species.[1][2] 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.[3]
Species[]
Puya goudotiana, Páramo of Guasca, Colombia
- 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
- L.B. Smith
- Puya angelensis E. Gross & Rauh
- L.B. Smith
- L.B. Smith
- L.B. Smith & R.W. Read
- L.B. Smith
- L.B. Smith
- Puya aristeguietae L.B. Smith
- L.B. Smith
- L.B. Smith
- Puya atra L.B. Smith
- L.B. Smith
- Gómez, Slanis & Grau
- Puya berteroniana Mez
- Mez
- Puya boliviensis Baker
- R. Vásquez, Ibisch & R. Lara
- Cuatrecasas
- (Baker) Mez
- Manzanares & W. Till
- Puya brittoniana Baker
- Manzanares & W. Till
- Puya cardenasii L.B. Smith
- Puya cardonae L.B. Smith
- L.B. Smith
- L.B. Smith
- L.B. Smith
- Puya chilensis Molina
- Puya claudiae Ibisch, R. Vásquez & E. Gross
- Puya clava-herculis Mez & Sodiro
- L.B. Smith & R.W. Read
- 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
- L.B. Smith
- Puya compacta L.B. Smith
- L.B. Smith
- Puya cristata L.B. Smith
- Cuatrecasas
- Puya ctenorhyncha L.B. Smith
- L.B. Smith
- Manzanares & W. Till
- Mez
- Puya dasylirioides Standley
- Harms
- L.B. Smith
- L.B. Smith & R.W. Read
- Manzanares & W. Till
- Harms
- Puya dyckioides (Baker) Mez
- R. Vásquez & P.L. Ibisch
- Puya entre-riosensis Ibisch & E. Gross
- Ibisch & R. Vásquez
- Puya eryngioides André
- Puya exigua Mez
- L.B. Smith & R.W. Read
- Mez
- Mez
- 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
- L.B. Smith
- (Willdenow) L.B. Smith
- L.B. Smith
- W. Weber
- W. Weber
- André
- Puya gilmartiniae G.S. Varadarajan & Flores
- Puya glabrescens L.B. Smith
- L.B. Smith
- Puya glareosa L.B. Smith
- Mez
- Puya glomerifera Mez & Sodiro
- Mez
- L.B. Smith
- Puya grafii Rauh
- Mez
- L.B. Smith
- L.B. Smith
- W. Weber
- L.B. Smith
- (Castellanos) Castellanos
- Harms
- Puya herzogii Wittmack
- Manzanares & W. Till
- Puya hofstenii Mez
- L.B. Smith & R.W. Read
- L.B. Smith
- Janeba[4]
- Puya hromadnikii Rauh
- L.B. Smith
- Puya humilis Mez
- L.B. Smith
- R. Vásquez
- L.B. Smith
- Mez
- H. Luther
- Puya killipii Cuatrecasas
- Puya kuntzeana Mez
- Mez
- Kunth
- (Ruiz & Pavón) Schultes f.
- R. Vásquez & Ibisch
- Puya lasiopoda L.B. Smith
- Puya laxa L.B. Smith
- L.B. Smith
- Puya leptostachya L.B. Smith
- Castellanos
- Mez
- L.B. Smith
- R. Vásquez & Ibisch
- Mez
- Manzanares & W. Till
- Mez
- L.B. Smith
- Manzanares & W. Till
- W. Till
- L.B. Smith
- P. m. ssp. yungayensis W. Weber
- L.B. Smith
- Mez
- Puya maculata L.B. Smith
- L.B. Smith
- L.B. Smith
- L.B. Smith
- Puya meziana Wittmack
- Puya micrantha Mez
- L.B. Smith & R.W. Read
- Puya minima L.B. Smith
- Puya mirabilis (Mez) L.B. Smith
- Mez
- Puya mollis Baker
- Manzanares
- Puya nana Wittmack
- Manzanares & W. Till
- L.B. Smith
- Mez
- P. n. var. glabrior L.B. Smith & R.W. Read
- Baker
- Puya nutans L.B. Smith
- Puya obconica L.B. Smith
- L.B. Smith
- Betancur & Callejas
- Puya olivacea Wittmack
- Mez
- R. Vásquez & Ibisch
- Puya parviflora L.B. Smith
- Manzanares & W. Till
- Puya paupera Mez
- Puya pearcei (Baker) Mez
- Puya penduliflora L.B. Smith
- Puya × pichinchae Mez & Sodiro
- L.B. Smith
- R. Vásquez, Ibisch & St. Beck
- L.B. Smith
- Puya potosina L.B. Smith
- L.B. Smith
- Puya prosanae Ibisch & E. Gross
- H. Luther
- Puya pygmaea L.B. Smith
- (Ruiz & Pavón) Schultes f.
- W. Weber
- Puya raimondii Harms
- L.B. Smith
- L.B. Smith
- L.B. Smith
- Puya reducta L.B. Smith
- Mez
- Puya retrorsa Gilmartin
- Puya riparia L.B. Smith
- H. Luther
- E. Morren
- Betancur & Callejas
- Puya roseana L.B. Smith
- Puya rusbyi (Baker) Mez
- L.B. Smith
- Puya sanctae-crucis (Baker) L.B. Smith
- L.B. Smith
- Cuatrecasas
- Cuatrecasas
- P. s. var. verdensis Cuatrecasas
- Puya secunda L.B. Smith
- R. Vásquez, Ibisch & R. Lara
- Puya silvae-baccae L.B. Smith & R.W. Read
- L.B. Smith
- Castellanos
- Puya sodiroana Mez
- Puya solomonii G.S. Varadarajan
- Puya spathacea (Grisebach) Mez
- Puya stenothyrsa (Baker) Mez
- L.B. Smith
- Mez
- W. Weber
- André
- Manzanares
- L.B. Smith
- Baker
- P. t. var. amplior L.B. Smith & R.W. Read
- Puya tristis L.B. Smith
- Puya trollii L.B. Smith
- Puya tuberosa Mez
- Mez
- Puya ugentiana L.B. Smith
- Puya ultima L.B. Smith
- Puya valida L.B. Smith
- L.B. Smith
- Puya vasquezii Ibisch & E. Gross
- Puya venezuelana L.B. Smith
- Puya venusta Philippi
- André
- Castillon
- Puya weberbaueri Mez
- E. Morren ex Mez
- Puya weddelliana (Baker) Mez
- R.W. Read & L.B. Smith
- L.B. Smith
- L.B. Smith
- L.B. Smith
- Castellanos
Cultivation and use[]
Some species of Puya in Chile, locally known as chagual, are used to make salads from the base of its young leaves or stem. A common species is Puya chilensis.
References[]
- ^ Givnish, Thomas J.; Barfuss, Michael H. J.; Van Ee, Benjamin; Riina, Ricarda; Schulte, Katharina; Horres, Ralf; Gonsiska, Philip A.; Jabaily, Rachel S.; Crayn, Darren M.; Smith, J. Andrew C.; Winter, Klaus (May 2011). "Phylogeny, adaptive radiation, and historical biogeography in Bromeliaceae: Insights from an eight-locus plastid phylogeny". American Journal of Botany. 98 (5): 872–895. doi:10.3732/ajb.1000059. hdl:2027.42/142109. PMID 21613186.
- ^ Gouda, E.J. & Butcher, D. (cont. updated) A List of Accepted Bromeliaceae Names [http://bromeliad.nl/bromNames/]. University Botanic Gardens, Utrecht (accessed: 20-12-2019).
- ^ Hornung-Leoni, Claudia; Sosa, Victoria (2008). "Morphological phylogenetics of Puya subgenus Puya (Bromeliaceae)" (PDF). Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 156: 93–110. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.2007.00740.x. Retrieved 7 December 2013.
- ^ Janeba, Zlatko (2017). "A New Species of Puya (Bromeliaceae) from Coastal Peru". Cactus and Succulent Journal. 89 (4): 176–184. doi:10.2985/015.089.0406.
External links[]
- Puya raimondii photos
- Pictures of Puya chilensis, Puya berteroniana, Puya coerulea and Puya venusta growing in Chile.
- BSI Genera Gallery photos
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