Family: Marantaceae

High Risk Traits:

• Thrives in tropical climates
  
• Reported as an emerging weed in South Africa, but no impacts described
  
• Shade-tolerant
  
• Tolerates many soil types
  
• Geophyte
  
• Reproduces by seeds and vegetatively
  
• Self-compatible
  
• Seeds dispersed by ants and intentionally by people
  
• Able to resprout after cutting

Low Risk Traits:

• No reports of invasiveness or naturalization
  
• Unarmed (no spines, thorns or burrs)
  
• Non-toxic
  
• Ornamental
  
• Limited seed production in cultivation