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|accepted_name=Ficus aurea
|accepted_authority=Nuttall
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=N. Amer. Sylv.
|place=2: 4, plate 43. 1846
|year=1846
}}
|common_names=Strangler fig;golden fig
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Selected by author to be illustrated
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|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Ficus aurea var. latifolia
|authority=Nuttall
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|hierarchy=Moraceae;Ficus;Ficus aurea
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Moraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Ficus]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Ficus aurea]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 3
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Trees,</b> evergreen, to 20 m. <b>Roots</b> aerial, sometimes present on branches, pendent, sometimes reaching ground and forming pillar-roots. <b>Bark</b> gray, smooth. <b>Branchlets</b> yellow. <b>Leaves</b>: stipules 1-1.5 cm; petiole 1-6 cm. <b>Leaf</b> blade ovate to oblong or obovate, 6-12(-15) × 3.5-6 cm, leathery, base rounded to cuneate, margins entire, apex obtuse or shortly and bluntly acuminate; surfaces abaxially and adaxially glabrous; basal veins 1(-2) pairs; lateral veins fewer than 10, if more these not uniformly spaced. <b>Syconia</b> usually paired, usually sessile, rarely with peduncles to 5 mm, red or yellow, obovoid, 6-15 mm diam., glabrous; subtending bracts 2, 3-5 mm, glabrous; ostiole prominent, closed by 3 conspicuous scales.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring–summer.
|habitat=Frequent in swamps, tropical hammocks, borders of mangrove swamps
|elevation=0-10 m
|distribution=Fla.;West Indies.
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name=Ficus aurea
|author=
|authority=Nuttall
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Ficus aurea var. latifolia
|basionyms=
|family=Moraceae
|phenology=Flowering spring–summer.
|habitat=Frequent in swamps, tropical hammocks, borders of mangrove swamps
|elevation=0-10 m
|distribution=Fla.;West Indies.
|reference=None
|publication title=N. Amer. Sylv.
|publication year=1846
|special status=Selected by author to be illustrated
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|genus=Ficus
|species=Ficus aurea
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