Family: Fabaceae

High Risk Traits:

• Broad climate suitability: Altitude range 0–2000 m; dry/moist tropics
  
• Widely introduced: Planted throughout tropics and subtropics
  
• Allelopathic: Suppresses understory vegetation
  
• Wide soil tolerance: Grows on alluvium, shale, limestone, and other types
  
• Nitrogen-fixing: Competitive advantage in poor soils
  
• Persistent seed bank: Seeds viable in soil for 2–3 years
  
• Tolerates mutilation: Withstands severe pruning
  
• Reproduces by seed: Produces abundant viable seed

Low Risk Traits:

• Not a significant weed: No evidence of being agricultural, environmental, or garden weed elsewhere
  
• Large seeds: Low seed production per m² (1600–3700 seeds/kg)
  
• Poor dispersal mechanisms: No adaptation for wind, water, animal attachment, or unintentional human dispersal
  
• Self-incompatible: Requires cross-pollination for seed set
  
• Shade-intolerant: Slow growth under shady conditions
  
• Palatable: Leaves and pods edible for livestock
  
• Fire-sensitive: Young plants susceptible to fire
  
• No congeneric weeds: Other Delonix species not problematic