Piper sodiroi is a species of plant in the family Piperaceae. It is endemic to Ecuador.
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.[1]
It was first published by Swiss botanist Casimir de Candolle in Bull. Herb. Boissier vol.6 on page 482 in 1898.[2]