Echites panduratus

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Echites panduratus - Wikipedia

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Loroco

Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Gentianales
Family:	Apocynaceae
Genus:	Echites
Species:	E. panduratus
Binomial name
*Echites panduratus* A. DC. (1844)
Synonyms^[1]
Amblyanthera pandurata (A.DC.) Müll.Arg. (1860) Angadenia pandurata (A.DC.) Miers (1878) Echites barbatus Sessé & Moc. (1893) not Desv. ex Ham. (1825) nor D. Dietr. (1839) Echites pinguifolius Standl. (1930) Fernaldia brachypharynx Woodson (1932) Fernaldia glabra (Molina) Lundell (1976) Fernaldia pandurata (A.DC.) Woodson (1932) Fernaldia pandurata var. glabra Molina (1952) Mandevilla potosina Brandegee (1912) Mandevilla velutina K.Schum. (1895) Urechites karwinskii Müll.Arg. (1860)

Echites panduratus (common name: loroco [loˈɾoko]) is a climbing vine with edible flowers, widespread in El Salvador, Guatemala, and other countries in Central America as well as parts of Mexico.^[1]^[2]^[3] The name "loroco" is used throughout Mesoamerica to refer to the species.^[4]

Description

Echites panduratus is an herbaceous vine with oblong-elliptical to broadly ovate leaves 4–13 centimetres (1.6–5.1 in). long, 1.5–8 cm broad, inflorescences are generally somewhat shorter than the leaves, with 8–18 flowers, the pedicels 4–6 mm. long; bracts ovate, 1–2 millimetres (0.039–0.079 in) long; calyx lobes ovate, acute or obtuse, 2–3 mm. long; corolla white within, greenish outside.^[4]

Range

Echites panduratus ranges from northeastern Mexico to Costa Rica.^[1]

Uses

Echites panduratus is an important source of food in Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador. The plant's buds and flowers are used for cooking in a variety of ways, including in pupusas.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Echites panduratus A.DC. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 30 July 2023.
^ Davidse, G. & al. (eds.) (2009). Flora Mesoamericana 4(1): 1-855. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, D.F.
^ Morales, J.F. (2009). Estudios en las Apocynaceae neotropicales XXXIX: revisión de las Apocynoideae y Rauvolfioideae de Honduras. Anales del Jardin Botanico de Madrid 66: 217–262.
^ ^a ^b Azurdia, César; Loroco (Fernaldia pandurata, Apocynaceae), a Mesoamerican species in the process of domestication

S. Facciola (1990). Cornucopia. A source book of edible plants. Kampong.
León, J., H. Goldbach & J. Engels, 1979: Die genetischen Ressourcen der Kulturpflanzen Zentralamerikas., Int. Genbank CATIE/GTZ in Turrialba, Costa Rica, San Juan de Tibás, Costa Rica, 32 pp.
Morton, J. F., E. Alvarez & C. Quiñonez, 1990: Loroco, Fernaldia pandurata (Apocynaceae): a popular edible flower of Central America. Economic Botany 44, 301–310.

External links

Media related to Fernaldia pandurata at Wikimedia Commons

Taxon identifiers
Echites panduratus	Wikidata: Q38447873 Wikispecies: Echites panduratus CoL: 38M23 GBIF: 3615199 GRIN: 400053 IPNI: 88698-2 NCBI: 429514 Open Tree of Life: 1017289 POWO: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:88698-2 Tropicos: 1801262 WFO: wfo-0000947734
Fernaldia pandurata	Wikidata: Q3259626 Wikispecies: Fernaldia pandurata CoL: 3DYMG EoL: 483920 GBIF: 5414402 GRIN: 400054 iNaturalist: 284542 IPNI: 103580-2 IRMNG: 10205425 ITIS: 505988 Plant List: kew-84387 PLANTS: FEPA3 POWO: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:103580-2 Tropicos: 1800289 WFO: wfo-0000967019

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