| Name | Espeletia purpurascens Cuatrecasas |
| Authorship | Cuatrecasas |
| Rank | Species |
| NomenclaturalStatus | NomLeg |
| Placed in | Espeletia |
| GUID | urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:205167-1 |
| Citation | 1942 Revista Acad. Colomb. Ci. Exact. 5: 16 |
| Holdings | 1 Specimen held in the Harvard University Herbaria identified as Espeletia purpurascens Cuatrecasas |
| Identification made in | 1983 (1) |