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

5E643363-7777-578C-BF77-5521E9DC215A

Pauta

urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77301576-1

T.Boza & M.Kessler

sect. nov.

Diagnosis.

Trees; 4–6 lateral leaflet pairs; lowers leaflet surfaces lanate or sericeous; fruits with flattened or thin spines, densely villous.

Type.

Polylepispauta Hieron.

Note.

The subsectional epithet Pauta is a noun in apposition ['Nomen vernaculum: Pauta'; fide: Hieron., Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 21(3): 314. 1895].