Diagnosis.

Taxon classification

Plantae

Rosales

Rosaceae

Boza Espinoza

Tatiana Erika

Kessler

Michael

A monograph of the genus

Polylepis

(

Rosaceae

)

PhytoKeys010820222031274

10.3897/phytokeys.203.83529

Subsection

7C130FFC-E805-5EB2-A382-058161A6E821

Pepea

urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77301637-1

T.Boza & M.Kessler

sect. nov.

Diagnosis.

Shrubs or trees, 1–2 lateral leaflet pairs; lower leaflet surfaces lanate or sericeous; fruit slightly twisted with short spines, densely sericeous.

Type.

Polylepispepei B.B. Simpson.

Note.

The subsectional epithet Pepea is a noun in apposition.