Vernonia adoensis Sch.Bip. ex Walp. (Asteraceae) is native to Benin, Burkina, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, DR Congo, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Guinea, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Rwanda, Senegal, Sudan-South Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe. Flora of the World documents 1 occurrence across 1 country.