Clibadium sodiroi

Clibadium sodiroi, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is native to Colombia and Ecuador.^[1] In Ecuador, its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.^[2]

Clibadium sodiroi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Asterales
Family:	Asteraceae
Tribe:	Heliantheae
Genus:	Clibadium
Species:	C. sodiroi
Binomial name
Clibadium sodiroi Hieron.[1]
Synonyms[1]
Clibadium mexiae S.F.Blake, J. Washington Acad. Sci. 28: 489 (1938)

It was first published and described in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 29: 32 in 1900.^[3]

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.^[4]

Conservation

Clibadium mexiae was assessed as "near threatened" in the 2003 IUCN Red List, where it is said to be native only to Ecuador.^[2] As of April 2023^[update], C. mexiae was regarded as a synonym of Clibadium sodiroi, which is also found in Colombia.^[1]