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 specimen][ Tropicos, 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 Mexico][Breedlove, D.E. 1986. Flora de Chiapas. Listados Florísticos de México 4: i–v, 1–246.]