Ficus tecolutensis is a species of flowering plant in the fig family (Moraceae). It is a tree native to central, eastern, and southern Mexico and to Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua in Central America.
The species was first described as Urostigma tecolutense by Frederik Liebmann in 1851. In 1867 Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel placed the species in genus Ficus as F. tecolutensis. 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. tuerckheimii .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.
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