Aldama sodiroi

Aldama sodiroi is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is found only in Ecuador. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.^[1]

Aldama sodiroi
Conservation status
Vulnerable  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Asterales
Family:	Asteraceae
Genus:	Aldama
Species:	A. sodiroi
Binomial name
Aldama sodiroi (Hieron.) E.E.Schill. & Panero
Synonyms[2][3]
Helianthus sodiroi Hieron. in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 29: 41 (1900) Rhysolepis sodiroi (Hieron.) H.Rob. & A.J.Moore in Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 117: 431 (2004) Viguiera sodiroi S.F.Blake in Contr. Gray Herb. 54: 139 (1918)

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.^[5]