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Puya dodsonii Manzan. & W.Till

(subgen. Puyopsis)

Publ: Bromeliaceae of Ecuador (Jewels of the Jungle) : Pitcairnioideae 2: 324 (2005)

Type: Ecuador, province of Cotopaxi: Pilalo, km 80 of the road Quevedo-Latacunga, 2500 m, 3 Nov. 1984, C. H. & P. M. Dodson 15391(Holotype: QCNE-11273; isotype: MO n.v.).

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Distribution: ECUADOR; Cotopaxi,

Habitat: Terrestrial in humid areas with vegetation in the Cordillera Occidental., 2500 , m. Elev.

Etymology: In honor of the North american botanist Calaway H. Dodson, specialist in the family Orchidaceae.

Puya dodsonii