| Name | Vernonia cognata Lessing |
| Authorship | Lessing |
| Rank | Species |
| Placed in | Vernonia Schreber |
| Citation | 1831 Linnaea 6(4): 670 (-671) |
| Holdings | 1 Specimen held in the Harvard University Herbaria identified as Vernonia cognata Lessing |
| Identification made in | [no date] (1) |