Subsection Incanaee T.Boza & M.Kessler sect. nov.

Diagnosis.

Trees or shrubs; one lateral leaflet pair; lower leaflet surfaces with a dense layer of very short, white or yellowish pannose hairs; fruits with 2-5 irregular flattened ridges with a series of spines.

Type.

Polylepis incana Kunth.

Note.

The subsectional epithet Incanae is a plural adjective agreeing in gender with Polylepis .