| Name | Puya ferruginea (Ruiz & Pavon) L. B. Smith |
| Authorship | (Ruiz & Pavon) L. B. Smith |
| Rank | Species |
| Placed in | Puya Molina |
| Citation | 1968 Phytologia 16: 461 |
| Holdings | 38 Specimens held in the Harvard University Herbaria identified as Puya ferruginea (Ruiz & Pavon) L. B. Smith |
| Identification made in | [no date] (11), 1927 (1), 1930 (2), 1932 (1), 1938 (3), 1940 (3), 1944 (1), 1961 (1), 1982 (1), 1986 (13), 1989 (1) |