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Puya lokischmidtiae R.Vasquez & Ibisch

(subgen. Puyopsis)

Publ: Die Bromelie 2004(1): 9 (2004)

Type: BOLIVIA: TARIJA: Prov. O'Connor: between Chiquiaca and Entre Rios, 1650 m, 21°39'S, 64°07'W terrestrial in the area of the Tucuman-Bolivian forest-area, 19. May 2001, (flowering on the 7.4.2003 in the FAN Living Collection in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, R. Vasquez, D. Ric, G. Salinas, M. Zamora & E. Garay 4066, (HOLOTYPE: LPB; ISOTYPE: USZ, VASQ).

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Distribution: BOLIVIA: Tarija,

Habitat: 1650 m. Elev.

Etymology: this new type is dedicated to Mrs. Prof. Dr. Hannelore "Loki " Schmidt on her 85th birthday. Loki Schmidt is one of the honorary German Naturalists. A bromeliad, which she discovered, has been named after her: the Mexican Pitcairnia lokischmidtiae. In Bolivia, she had the opportunity in 1979, to see Puya raimondii and to marvel.

Puya lokischmidtiae