Family: Fabaceae
High Risk Traits:
- Tolerates a wide range of climates, and elevation range exceeds 2000 m, demonstrating environmental versatility
- Thrives in tropical climates
- Naturalized in Australia, Papua New Guinea and perhaps elsewhere
- Identified as a potentially weedy species, with warnings that Extreme caution should be exercised in introducing it to exotic environments
- Potentially toxic to grazing animals
- Tolerates many soil types
- Capable of forming dense thickets
- N-fixing (may alter soil chemistry)
- Reproduces by seeds and vegetatively by rhizomes
- Rapid growth rate
- Seeds dispersed by animals that consume them (e.g. cattle or birds) or by water movement
- Prolific seed production
- Seeds form a persistent seed bank (5+ years)
- Able to coppice and resprout after cutting and tolerates fire
Low Risk Traits:
- Unarmed (no spines or thorns)
- Provides fodder for livestock (palatable despite reports of toxicity)
- Reported to be self-incompatible
