Fernaldia pandurata

Loroco
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Asterids
Order:	Gentianales
Family:	Apocynaceae
Subfamily:	Apocynoideae
Genus:	Fernaldia
Species:	F. pandurata
Binomial name
Fernaldia pandurata A. DC., 1844; Woodson, 1932
Synonyms[1]
Echites panduratus A.DC. Amblyanthera pandurata (A.DC.) Müll.Arg. Angadenia pandurata (A.DC.) Miers Urechites karwinskii Müll.Arg. Echites barbatus Sessé & Moc. 1893 not Desv. ex Ham. 1825 nor D. Dietr. 1839 Mandevilla velutina K.Schum. Mandevilla potosina Brandegee Echites pinguifolius Standl Fernaldia brachypharynx Woodson Fernaldia pandurata var. glabra Molina Fernaldia glabra (Molina) Lundell

Fernaldia pandurata (common name: loroco [loˈɾoko]) is a vine with edible flowers, widespread in Mexico and Central America.^[1][2][3]

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

Fernaldia pandurata: Cropped buds for cooking.

The name "loroco" is used throughout Mesoamerica to refer to Fernaldia pandurata.^[4]

Fernaldia pandurata is a 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]

References

1. 1 2 Kew World Checklist of Selected plant Families
2. ↑ Davidse, G. & al. (eds.) (2009). Flora Mesoamericana 4(1): 1-855. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, D.F..
3. ↑ 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.
4. 1 2 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

• Loroco in World Crops (English)