<documentID-DOI="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.203.83529"ID-GBIF-Dataset="04258703-bc6a-4151-99f0-7e135a97ea64"ID-PMC="PMC9849045"ID-Pensoft-Pub="1314-2003-203-1"ID-Pensoft-UUID="001CD6EE01E8575F81AC9EFDD0599077"ID-PubMed="36761034"ModsDocID="1314-2003-203-1"checkinTime="1659410005165"checkinUser="pensoft"docAuthor="Boza Espinoza, Tatiana Erika & Kessler, Michael"docDate="2022"docId="14B5336B087D4FBBE735329B190755DD"docLanguage="en"docName="PhytoKeys 203: 1-274"docOrigin="PhytoKeys 203"docPubDate="2022-08-01"docSource="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.203.83529"docTitle="Subsericantes T. Boza & M. Kessler 2022, sect. nov."docType="treatment"docVersion="5"id="001CD6EE01E8575F81AC9EFDD0599077"lastPageNumber="1"masterDocId="001CD6EE01E8575F81AC9EFDD0599077"masterDocTitle="A monograph of the genus Polylepis (Rosaceae)"masterLastPageNumber="274"masterPageNumber="1"pageNumber="1"updateTime="1732488196107"updateUser="ExternalLinkService">
<mods:affiliationid="0C73EC68B27FB68D5EBCA10E06FA83B8">Institute for Nature, Earth and Energy (INTE), Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru (PUCP), Av. Universitaria 1801, Lima 15088, Peru</mods:affiliation>
<mods:affiliationid="E9E842F47B64FEADE8B2BF147BA6B928">Department of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, University of Zurich, Zollikerstrasse 107, CH- 8008 Zurich, Switzerland</mods:affiliation>
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<paragraphid="162F01389A102923773DE644FEE29C23"pageId="0"pageNumber="1">Trees; 1 lateral leaflet pair; lower leaflet surfaces densely villous or strigose; fruits with 3-4 irregular flattened ridges with a series of spines, densely pilose.</paragraph>
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contains species with pilose or strigose lower leaflet surfaces, one lateral leaflet pair and densely pilose fruits with 3-4 irregular flattened ridges bearing a series of spines. This peculiar combination of characters, which combines traits of sections
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<bibRefCitationid="CD04347BB73819572B6D7ACB61C5AB68"DOI="https://doi.org/10.5479/si.0081024X.43.1"author="Simpson, BB"journalOrPublisher="Smithsonian Contributions to Botany"pageId="0"pageNumber="1"pagination="1 - 62"refId="B306"refString="Simpson, BB, 1979. A revision of the genus Polylepis (Rosaceae: Sanguisorbeae). Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 43 (43): 1 - 62, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5479/si.0081024X.43.1"title="A revision of the genus Polylepis (Rosaceae: Sanguisorbeae)."url="https://doi.org/10.5479/si.0081024X.43.1"volume="43"year="1979">Simpson (1979)</bibRefCitation>
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. Given their distinctness, we place this species and two closely related ones in a separate section. All three species only occur in central Peru, where they occupy parapatric ranges. Table
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<bibRefCitationid="E225715F7CB1D9AB74AE986AC3912362"DOI="https://doi.org/10.5479/si.0081024X.43.1"author="Simpson, BB"journalOrPublisher="Smithsonian Contributions to Botany"pageId="0"pageNumber="1"pagination="1 - 62"refId="B306"refString="Simpson, BB, 1979. A revision of the genus Polylepis (Rosaceae: Sanguisorbeae). Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 43 (43): 1 - 62, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5479/si.0081024X.43.1"title="A revision of the genus Polylepis (Rosaceae: Sanguisorbeae)."url="https://doi.org/10.5479/si.0081024X.43.1"volume="43"year="1979">Simpson (1979)</bibRefCitation>
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Climatic niches among the species of this section do not differ with respect to the temperature under which they grow, but have clear differences with respect to mean annual rainfall:
<figureCitationid="FDF5BF6D5020B87EB248823077F0CF24"captionStart="Figure 62"captionStartId="F62"captionText="Figure 62. Box plots showing the climatic niches of the species of the subsections Australes and Subsericantes in relation to MAT (A) and MAP (B). See Fig. 12 for details on data presentation."figureDoi="10.3897/phytokeys.203.83529.figure62"httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/721379"pageId="0"pageNumber="1">62</figureCitation>
