| Name | Vernonia elegans Gardner |
| Authorship | Gardner |
| Rank | Species |
| NomenclaturalStatus | NomLeg |
| Placed in | Vernonia Schreber |
| GUID | urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:258291-1 |
| Citation | 1847 London J. Bot. 6: 421 |
| Holdings | 2 Specimens held in the Harvard University Herbaria identified as Vernonia elegans Gardner |
| Identification made in | [no date] (1), 1981 (1) |