Ficus tuerckheimii is a species of flowering plant in the fig family (Moraceae). It is a tree native to eastern, central, and southern Mexico and to Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama in Central America. It is likely pollinated by wasps of genus Pegoscapus in family Agaonidae.Gabriela Delgado-Pérez, Guillermo Ibarra-Manríquez, Sonia Vázquez-Santana, Nadia Castro-Cárdenas, Embryology of Ficus tuerckheimii (subg. Spherosuke, Moraceae) and its relevance in interactions with its pollinator wasps, Pegoscapus sp. (Agaonidae). Flora, Volume 293, 2022, 152108, ISSN 0367-2530, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.flora.2022.152108.
The species was described by Paul Carpenter Standley in 1917. It is part of subgenus Spherosuke sect. Americanae , and is one of five species in the Ficus aurea complex, which also includes F. aurea , F. cookii , F. isophlebia , and F. tecolutensis .
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