Nicker

Caesalpinia

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Caesalpinia (Nicker) is a genus of plants in the family Fabaceae. Flowers are visited by Small Carpenter Bees. Nicker fix nitrogen. They are photoautotrophs.

URI: https://eol.org/schema/terms/fixes
Definition: Captures an element from the air and incorporates it into its biochemistry

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URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/CHEBI_25555

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URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ECOCORE_00000130
Definition: An autotroph which is capable of transforming light into chemical energy.

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EOL has data for 23 attributes, including:

Leaf lamina area
- URI: http://top-thesaurus.org/annotationInfo?viz=1&&trait=Leaflet_lamina_area
- Definition: the area of the leaflet lamina in the one sided projection
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260 mm^2
Stem specific density
- URI: http://top-thesaurus.org/annotationInfo?viz=1&&trait=Stem_specific_density
- Definition: the ratio of the mass of the stem or an unit thereof assessed after drying, to its volume assessed without drying
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1.1 g/cm^3
Vegetative plant height
- URI: http://top-thesaurus.org/annotationInfo?viz=1&&trait=Plant_height_vegetative
- Definition: the plant height considering the highest vegetative component
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2.6 m
ecoregion
- URI: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q295469
- Definition: ecologically and geographically defined area that is smaller than a biogeographic realm
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Restinga
- URI: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3305106
- Definition: Atlantic Coast Restingas, ecoregion. Vegetation complex ocurring in the seaside lowlands of Brazil, establishing over sea deposits of sandy sediment. It comprises open or scrubby profiles nearer the beaches, while inland it is forms tall forests.
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first appearance
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/FossilFirst
- Definition: The first appearance of this taxon in the fossil record.
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Paleogene Period
- URI: http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/ics/ischart/Paleogene
- Attribution: International Chronostratigraphic Chart: http://www.stratigraphy.org/index.php/ics-chart-timescale
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geographic distribution includes
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/Present
- Definition: This organism is known to be present in this location or region
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Nevada
- URI: http://www.geonames.org/5509151
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habitat
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002303
- Definition: x has habitat y if: x is an organism, y is a habitat, and y can sustain and allow the growth of a population of x
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scrubland
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000300
- Definition: Area covered with low-growing or stunted perennial vegetation and usually not mixed with trees.
- Comment: Ontology Description: http://environmentontology.org/ Ontology Source: http://envo.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/src/envo/envo.owl
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is eaten by
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002471
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Odites atmopa Meyrick 1914
native range includes
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/NativeRange
- Definition: Lists jurisdictions in which a given organism is a member of the undisturbed fauna or flora.
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Puerto Rico
- URI: http://www.geonames.org/4566966
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number of fossil occurrences
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/fossilOccPBDB
- Definition: The number of fossil occurrences in the Paleobiology Database (https://paleobiodb.org) that are identified as belonging to a particular taxon or any of its subtaxa.
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14
parasitized by
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002445
- Definition: automatically added during harvest
- Comment: Auto-added during harvest #37. A human needs to edit this.
- Attribution: Global Biotic Interactions
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Tanaostigmodes desantisi La Salle 1987
water depth
- URI: http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/verbatimDepth
- Definition: The depth of seawater at a location where this organism has been observed or collected.
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1 m

Known occurrences, collected specimens and observations of Nicker. View this species on GBIF

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Nicker

Caesalpinia

Nicker includes 159 children: