Matudina is a genus of flowering plants in the tribe Eupatorieae within the family Asteraceae.D.J.N.Hind & H.E.Robinson. 2007. Tribe Eupatorieae In: The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants vol.VIII. (Joachim W.Kadereit & Charles Jeffrey, volume editors. Klaus Kubitzky, general editor). Springer-Verlag. Berlin, Heidelberg.King, Robert Merrill & Robinson, Harold Ernest. 1973. Phytologia 26(3): 170-173, f. 1–2 descriptions in Latin, commentary in English, photos of type herbarium specimenTropicos, Matudina R.M. King & H. Rob.
The genus is named for Dr. Eizi Matuda (1894-1978) of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. There is only one known species, Matudina corvi, native to the State of Chiapas in southern MexicoBreedlove, D.E. 1986. Flora de Chiapas. Listados Florísticos de México 4: i–v, 1–246.
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