World Checklist of Selected Plant Families: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Puya altensteinii Link, Klotzsch & Otto, Icon. Pl. Select. 1: 1 (1820).

This name is a synonym.

Homotypic Names:
Accepted Name:	Pitcairnia altensteinii (Link, Klotzsch & Otto) Lem., Fl. Serres Jard. Eur. 2: 162 (1846).
Family:	Bromeliaceae
Pitcairnia altensteinii (Link, Klotzsch & Otto) Lem., Fl. Serres Jard. Eur. 2: 162 (1846). Lamproconus altensteinii (Link, Klotzsch & Otto) Lem., Jard. Fleur. 2: t. 217 (1852). Phlomostachys altensteinii (Link, Klotzsch & Otto) Beer, Fam. Bromel.: 45 (1856). Neumannia altensteinii (Link, Klotzsch & Otto) Griseb., Nachr. K�nigl. Ges. Wiss. Georg-Augusts-Univ. 1: 14 (1864 publ. 1865). Hepetis altensteinii (Link, Klotzsch & Otto) Mez in A.L.P.P.de Candolle & A.C.P.de Candolle, Monogr. Phan. 9: 973 (1896).
Original Compiler:	R.Govaerts