| Name | Vernonia axillaris Lessing |
| Authorship | Lessing |
| Rank | Species |
| NomenclaturalStatus | NomLeg |
| Placed in | Vernonia Schreber |
| GUID | urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:257902-1 |
| Citation | 1829 Linnaea 4: 253 |
| Holdings | 3 Specimens held in the Harvard University Herbaria identified as Vernonia axillaris Lessing |
| Identification made in | [no date] (1), 1984 (1), 2008 (1) |