Critoniopsis sodiroi is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae.

Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

It is threatened by habitat loss.

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.

[3] It was first published in Phytologia vol.69 on page 105 in 1990.