Loroco

(Echites panduratus)

Description

This article is about the plant genus. For the moth genus, see Scardia (moth).Fernaldia is a genus of flowering plants in the dogbane family, Apocynaceae, first described as a genus in 1932. It is native to Mexico and Central America.

Taxonomic tree:

Domain:

Kingdom: Plantae

Phylum: Magnoliophyta

Class: Magnoliopsida

Order:Gentianales

Family:Apocynaceae

Genus:Echites

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