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.