Besseria T.Boza & M.Kessler, 2022

Boza Espinoza, Tatiana Erika & Kessler, Michael, 2022, A monograph of the genus Polylepis (Rosaceae), PhytoKeys 203, pp. 1-274 : 1

publication ID	https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.203.83529
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/B0DE3BA9-FAEB-D859-C8DD-5DEC35D13907
treatment provided by	PhytoKeys by Pensoft
scientific name	Besseria T.Boza & M.Kessler
status	sect. nov.

Treatment

Subsection Besseria T.Boza & M.Kessler LSID sect. nov.

Diagnosis.

Trees; 1-2(-3) lateral leaflet pairs; lower leaflet surfaces with a dense layer of very short, white pannose hairs sometimes mixed with long tomentose hairs; fruits with 2-5 irregular flattened ridges with a series of spines, sparsely to densely tomentose or villous.

Type.

Polylepis besseri Hieron.

Note.

The subsectional epithet Besseria is a noun in apposition.