Subsection Pepea 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.

Polylepis pepei B.B. Simpson.

Note.

The subsectional epithet Pepea is a noun in apposition.