| Name | Vernonia smithiana Lessing |
| Authorship | Lessing |
| Rank | Species |
| NomenclaturalStatus | NomLeg |
| Placed in | Vernonia Schreber |
| GUID | urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:259393-1 |
| Citation | 1831 Linnaea 6: 638 |
| Holdings | 1 Specimen held in the Harvard University Herbaria identified as Vernonia smithiana Lessing |
| Identification made in | [no date] (1) |