| Name | Vernonia mexicana Lessing |
| Authorship | Lessing |
| Rank | Species |
| NomenclaturalStatus | NomLeg |
| Placed in | Vernonia Schreber |
| GUID | urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:258835-1 |
| Citation | 1831 Linnaea 6: 680 |
| Holdings | 4 Specimens held in the Harvard University Herbaria identified as Vernonia mexicana Lessing |
| Identification made in | [no date] (2), 1974 (1), 1981 (1) |