Indigenous vegetables consumed as lalapan by Sundanese ethnic group in West Java']Java, Indonesia: Potential, traditions, local knowledge, and it's future

The local knowledge of indigenous people about traditional vegetables has been well documented. However, there is little conventional plant documentation biodiversity on indigenous vegetables used as lalapan in West Java, Indonesia. The method used in this study was a qualitative method using an exploratory approach. Informants, including traditional leaders, indigenous people, and the Sundanese younger generation, provided data. Credibility, transferability, dependability, and confirmability tests were used to determine the data validity. The data were evaluated using data reduction, visualization, and verification techniques. Then, to show the local importance of each species, Relative Frequency of Citation (RFC) analysis was conducted, and The usage value (UV) analysis was used to determine the relative usefulness of plants in a given location. There were 86 species of edible indigenous vegetables consumed as lalapan, which belong to 32 families. The vegetables were accumulated from four traditional villages. The implication of indigenous vegetables as lalapan is a top priority to ensure nutrition, public health, and food security. (c) 2022 SAAB. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.