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Puya sodiroana Mez

Bromeliaceae · Ecuador

No habitat climate
Photographs not checked iNaturalist was skipped (not asked) when this page was built. Not asked, or not answered, is not "none": nothing here claims there is none. Why the site says it this way.
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Summary

Puya sodiroana is a species of flowering plant in the family Bromeliaceae. It is endemic to Ecuador. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Puya sodiroana", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 7 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 7 of the 7 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeEcuador · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker0.003, -78.494 · in the densest population, 6 records (86% of those in range)
Kew's description“perennial” · “subtropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 7 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 5 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker in the same place. Under a dozen records behind the map. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 7 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 7 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

Not checked. iNaturalist was skipped (not asked) when this page was built; GBIF's observation records with coordinates hold none. Not a statement that none exist.

Other Puya 27 in the reference

Puya aequatorialis Puya aequatorialis Bromeliaceae Photo: CC BY, John G. PhillipsPuya alpestris Puya alpestris Sapphire tower Photo: CC BY, Darío De la FuentePuya × berteroniana Puya × berteroniana Bromeliaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Nicolás Villaseca MerinoPuya bicolor Puya bicolor Bromeliaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Nicolas RamirezPuya boliviensis Puya boliviensis Bromeliaceae Photo: CC BY, Jorge Muñoz CamadroPuya chilensis Puya chilensis Sheep-eating Plant Photo: CC0, author not statedPuya clava-herculis Puya clava-herculis Bromeliaceae Photo: CC0, author not statedPuya cochabambensis Puya cochabambensis Bromeliaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Thibaud AronsonPuya coerulea Puya coerulea Bromeliaceae Photo: CC BY, Cesar OrmazabalPuya dasylirioides Puya dasylirioides Sotol puya Photo: CC BY, Sundari MastersPuya ferruginea Puya ferruginea Bromeliaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Thibaud AronsonPuya gilmartiniae Puya gilmartiniae Bromeliaceae Photo: CC BY, Cody Hinchliff all 28 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Puya gummifera. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Bromeliaceae
Described by
Mez
Native to
Ecuador
Wild records
7 in range · 5 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-227 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
Wikimedia Commons commons nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 4 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

Cultifolio

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