| 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) | 
