Family: Fabaceae

High Risk Traits:

• Elevation range exceeds 1000 m, demonstrating environmental versatility
  
• Grows in tropical climates
  
• Possibly naturalizing on Hawaii (Hawaiian Islands), naturalized on Norfolk Island, and a cultivation escape in New Zealand
  
• Seeds and foliage toxic to animals; seeds toxic to humans
  
• Shade tolerant
  
• N-fixing (may alter soil chemistry)
  
• Reproduces by seeds
  
• Seeds dispersed by water and intentionally by people
  
• Able to coppice and resprout after cutting

Low Risk Traits:

• No reports of invasiveness or negative impacts outside native range
  
• Unarmed (no spines, thorns, or burrs)
  
• Dioecious
  
• Not reported to spread vegetatively
  
• Large fruit and seeds unlikely to be inadvertently dispersed
  
• Recalcitrant seeds will not form a persistent seed bank