Family: Fabaceae

High Risk Traits:

• Thrives in tropical climates
  
• Elevation range exceeds 1000 m
  
• Related Dalbergia species have become invasive
  
• Contact with wood may cause dermatitis
  
• Shade-tolerant (may be able to invade intact forest)
  
• Tolerates many soil types
  
• Nitrogen fixing
  
• Seeds dispersed by wind, and intentionally planted by people
  
• Can resprout from cut stump
  
• Rarity within native range and missing ecological information makes accurate risk prediction difficult

Low Risk Traits:

• No reports of naturalization or invasiveness to date (although this may be due to limited cultivation outside the native range)
  
• Unarmed (no spines, thorns or burrs)
  
• Valued for timber
  
• Not known to spread vegetatively
  
• Herbicides may provide effective control