Puya joergensenii
Overview
A detailed profile for this species is sourced from the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species as assessments become available.
Puya joergensenii faces severe pressure from livestock grazing, particularly cattle and goats, which damage the slow-growing rosettes and prevent successful reproduction. Mining activities and infrastructure development in its high-altitude Andean habitat pose additional threats through direct habitat destruction. Climate change compounds these pressures by altering precipitation patterns and temperature regimes in the specialized montane ecosystems where this bromeliad occurs.
Habitat
This terrestrial bromeliad inhabits high-altitude Andean slopes and rocky outcrops between 3,000-4,500 meters elevation in Bolivia and northern Argentina. It grows in specialized montane grasslands and shrublands with well-drained soils, often on steep terrain with sparse vegetation cover.
