| Name | Vernonia praestans Ekman & Urban |
| Authorship | Ekman & Urban |
| Rank | Species |
| NomenclaturalStatus | NomLeg |
| Placed in | Vernonia Schreber |
| Citation | 1929 Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 26: 101 |
| Holdings | 2 Specimens held in the Harvard University Herbaria identified as Vernonia praestans Ekman & Urban |
| Identification made in | [no date] (1), 1981 (1) |