| Name | Vernonia esculenta Hemsley |
| Authorship | Hemsley |
| Rank | Species |
| NomenclaturalStatus | NomLeg |
| Placed in | Vernonia Schreber |
| Citation | 1888 J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 23: 401 |
| Holdings | 41 Specimens held in the Harvard University Herbaria identified as Vernonia esculenta Hemsley |
| Identification made in | [no date] (41) |