Echites panduratus
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{{Speciesbox
|name = Loroco
|image = Guia de Loroco.JPG
|taxon = Echites panduratus
|authority = A. DC. (1844)
|synonyms =
- 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 {{small|(A.DC.) Woodson (1932)}}
- Fernaldia pandurata var. glabra Molina (1952)
- Mandevilla potosina Brandegee (1912)
- Mandevilla velutina K.Schum. (1895)
- Urechites karwinskii Müll.Arg. (1860)
|synonyms_ref = [https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:88698-2 Echites panduratus A.DC.] Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 30 July 2023.
}}
Echites panduratus (common name: loroco {{IPA|es|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.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. The name "loroco" is used throughout its range to refer to the species.Azurdia, César; Loroco (Fernaldia pandurata, Apocynaceae), a Mesoamerican species in the process of domestication
Description
Echites panduratus is an herbaceous vine with oblong-elliptical to broadly ovate leaves {{convert|4|–|13|cm}}. 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, {{convert|1|–|2|mm}} long; calyx lobes ovate, acute or obtuse, 2–3 mm. long; corolla white within, greenish outside.
Range
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.
File:2010.05.13.083117 Fernaldia pandurata - loroco Guatemala City.jpg
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References
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- {{cite book|author=S. Facciola|date=1990|title=Cornucopia. A source book of edible plants|publisher=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
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- [http://www.worldcrops.org/crops/Loroco.cfm Loroco in World Crops (English)]
- [https://m.pizzahut.com.sv/menu/categoria/Lovers-de-lo-Nuestro/producto/combo-super-personal-de-loroco Pizza Hut El Salvador Loroco Pizza]
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