Family: Davalliaceae
High Risk Traits:
- Elevation range exceeds 1500 m, demonstrating environmental versatility
- Grows in tropical climates
- Possibly naturalizing on Oahu, Hawaiian Islands (confirmation needed)
- Shade-tolerant
- Tolerates many soil types
- Reproduces by spores and vegetatively by rhizomes
- Spores dispersed by wind and possibly water
- Intentionally propagated
- Presumably prolific spore production
Low Risk Traits:
- No reports of invasiveness or naturalization to date
- Cultivated, but not reported as naturalized, in Hawaiian Islands
- Unarmed (no spines, thorns or burrs)
- Non-toxic
- Ornamental