|Scientific Name:||Puya raimondii| Pourretia gigantea A.D.Orb.
|Taxonomic Notes:||The Puya clade is no longer considered
belonging to the Pitcarnioideæ subfamily, but a sister of the
Bromelioideæ (Givnish et al. 2004, Horres et al. 2000, Terry et
al. 1997).| |Red List Category & Criteria:||Endangered A2ac+3c
ver 3.1| |Reviewer/s:||Pollock, C.M. & Hilton-Taylor, C.| Puya
raimondii is rivalled only by members of the Ceroxylon palm
genus as the most spectacular high-Andean plant. It occurs in
often very isolated and usually small populations or rodales
from Peru to Bolivia. Communities frequently number a few
hundred individuals or less, but can range up to perhaps 30,000
plants in Paso Winchus as well as in Cashapampa, Pachacoto and
sector Carpa, Huascarán National Park, Huaraz, which is probably
Peru’s best known location. Populations reach 10,000 in Rodeo,
Arani largest population which may represent one third that
country’s plants. In Titankayoc in southern Peru’s Ayacucho,
however, there is an extraordinary