| Name | Vernonia simplex Lessing |
| Authorship | Lessing |
| Rank | Species |
| NomenclaturalStatus | NomLeg |
| Placed in | Vernonia Schreber |
| GUID | urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:259388-1 |
| Citation | 1929 Linnaea 4: 280 |
| Holdings | 2 Specimens held in the Harvard University Herbaria identified as Vernonia simplex Lessing |
| Identification made in | [no date] (1), 1981 (1) |