Family: Fabaceae

High Risk Traits:

• Broad ecological tolerance and elevation range exceeds 1000 m, demonstrating environmental versatility
  
• Thrives in tropical climates
  
• Naturalized in India
  
• A weed in India and Western Australia, where it was eradicated
  
• Other Dalbergia species have become invasive
  
• Twigs with terminal thorns
  
• Wood may cause allergic reaction or dermatitis
  
• Tolerates many soil types
  
• Nitrogen fixing
  
• Reproduces by seeds, root suckers and coppicing
  
• Seeds dispersed by wind and intentionally by people
  
• Heavy annual seed production (densities unknown)
  
• Able to coppice and resprout after cutting
  
• Mature trees tolerate fire

Low Risk Traits:

• Leaves and pods are palatable. Provides fodder for livestock
  
• Non-toxic to animals
  
• Valuable timber tree
  
• Light-demanding (may be Shade-intolerant)
  
• Not gregarious. Not known to form dense stands in native range
  
• Self-incompatible
  
• Slow growth and long time to reproductive maturity
  
• Seeds rapidly lose viability and may not form a persistent seed bank