Echites panduratus

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
	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]

^ ^a ^b 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.
^ Azurdia, César; Loroco (Fernaldia pandurata, Apocynaceae), a Mesoamerican species in the process of domestication