| Name | Vernonia leprosa Lessing |
| Authorship | Lessing |
| Rank | Species |
| NomenclaturalStatus | NomLeg |
| Placed in | Vernonia Schreber |
| GUID | urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:258690-1 |
| Citation | 1829 Linnaea 4: 252 |
| Holdings | 1 Specimen held in the Harvard University Herbaria identified as Vernonia leprosa Lessing |
| Identification made in | 1984 (1) |