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Puya aequatorialis

Puya aequatorialis
Photo: Ben Pritchard, CC0
Family
Bromeliaceae (Pineapple family)
Grows as
Perennial
Native range
Ecuador
Climate
wet tropical

About

Puya aequatorialis is a species of plant in the family Bromeliaceae. It is endemic to Ecuador. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical dry shrubland. It is threatened by habitat loss. There is little information known about this species.

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Puya alata · Puya alba · Sapphire Tower · Puya angelensis · Puya aristeguietae · Puya atra · Puya berteroniana · Puya boliviensis · Puya brittoniana · Puya cardenasii · Puya cardonae · Puya

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Puya aequatorialis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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