Washington 117: 431 (2004) Viguiera sodiroi S.F.Blake in Contr.
54: 139 (1918) Aldama sodiroi is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae.
Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
[1] After molecular phylogenetic studies by botanists Schilling and Panero in 2011, showed that some species that were formerly classified in the genus Viguiera, were then transferred to genus Aldama.
[4] The specific epithet of sodiroi refers to Luis Sodiro (1836–1909), who was an Italian Jesuit priest and a field botanist,who collected many plants in Ecuador.