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10245 - Bromeliads (Garden) - 2012-08-06
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Puya weberbaueri

(Uploaded as: Puya spec.)
Locality: Peru - Cusco - Machu picchu, near the entrance.
Photographer: Kan Morikawa
Note: Although I considered this plant as Puya weberbaueri, in this web other plant has that name... (Sent: brom-l@science.uu.nl)
Identification: solved
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- Add Note: Kan Morikawa (2012-08-06) - Sorry, it brooms on october.
- Identification: Eric Gouda (2012-08-06) =Puya weberbaueri
- Kan, you are right it is Puya weberbaueri. I have compared specimen from Machu Picchu with the type and they are quite similar. The bracts are loosing indument in the herbarium specimen, making it look different.
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