| Name | Vernonia rigida Swartz |
| Authorship | Swartz |
| Rank | Species |
| NomenclaturalStatus | NomLeg |
| Placed in | Vernonia Schreber |
| Contains | Vernonia rigida var. sagraeana M. Gomez |
| GUID | urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:259239-1 |
| Holdings | 2 Specimens held in the Harvard University Herbaria identified as Vernonia rigida Swartz |
| Identification made in | [no date] (2) |