Myrovernix, Koekemoer, 2019

Koekemoer, Marinda, 2019, Taxonomy and reclassification of South African Asteraceae genus Elytropappus (Gnaphalieae, Asteraceae), the description of two new genera and two new species, Phytotaxa 403 (4), pp. 248-284 : 269-270

Key to the species of Myrovernix

1. Plants large, robust, up to 2.5 m tall; cypselas smooth, but with wart-like growths concentrated in the area below the annulus; branches often candelabrum-like, in whorls; leaves up to 15 mm long; pappus setae 17–25; capitula 3-flowered ........................... ..................................................................................................................................................................................... M. longifolius

- Plants rarely robust, up to 1 m tall; wart-like growths absent from cypsela surface; branches rarely candelabrum-like, not whorled; leaves generally 3–8 mm long; pappus setae 15–20; capitula 1- to 4-flowered ............................................................................... 2

2. Capitula, at least some, 1-flowered; branches often entangled and branching off at right angles from the main stems; leaves short, up to 3 mm long, widely spaced, usually densely glandular .......................................................................................... M. intricata

- Capitula 2- to 4-flowered; branches erect or spreading, occasionally entangled; leaves up to 15 mm long, closely or widely spaced, sparsely or densely glandular ........................................................................................................................................................... 3

3. Leaves sparsely glandular, spreading or reflexed; capitula 4-flowered (occasionally 2- or 3-flowered) ............... M. gnaphaloides

- Leaves densely glandular, adpressed or spreading; capitula 2- or 3-flowered ................................................................................. 4

4. Capitula 2-flowered; synflorescence an open panicle; leaves adpressed or spreading ..................................................... M. scaber

- Capitula 2- or 3-flowered; synflorescence spike-like; leaves usually adpressed, at least on some branches or below synflorescences........................................................................................................................................................... M. glandulosus