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Issue: Vol. 454 No. 2: 29 July 2020
Type: Article
Published: 2020-07-29
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.454.2.3
Page range: 111–126
Abstract views: 35
PDF downloaded: 40

Taxonomic revaluation of the Polylepis pauta and P. sericea (Rosaceae) from Ecuador

Department of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, University of Zurich, Zollikerstrasse 107, CH-8008 Zurich, Switzerland Herbario Vargas CUZ, Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco, Av. de La Cultura 773, Cusco, Perú
Herbario QCA, Escuela de Biología, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Av. 12 de Octubre 1076 y Roca, Quito, Ecuador
Department of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, University of Zurich, Zollikerstrasse 107, CH-8008 Zurich, Switzerland
Eudicots Morphology taxonomy

Abstract

We conducted a taxonomic revaluation of the Polylepis pauta and P. sericea complexes in Ecuador, recognizing five species, three of which are described as new: Polylepis humboldtii sp. nov., P. loxensis sp. nov., P. longipilosa sp. nov., P. ochreata, and P. pauta. We provide descriptions of all species, full specimen citations, and updated keys to genus Polylepis in Ecuador and to the P. pauta and P. sericea complexes in general.