Lourteigia is a genus of South American 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. 1971. Phytologia 21: 28-30 Tropicos, Lourteigia R.M. King & H. Rob.Badillo Franceri, Victor Manuel. 1985. Ernstia 29: 11-16
The genus name of Lourteigia is in honour of Alicia Lourteig (1913–2003), an Argentine and French botanist, who was a world specialist in Oxalidaceae plants.
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