Family: Melastomataceae

High Risk Traits:

• Thrives in tropical climates
  
• Other Medinilla species have become invasive
  
• Shade-tolerant
  
• Reproduces by seeds
  
• Self-compatible
  
• Pollinated by generalist insects
  
• Seeds dispersed by birds and intentionally by people
  
• Small seed size may facilitate accidental dispersal

Low Risk Traits:

• No reports of invasiveness or naturalization, but limited evidence of cultivation outside native range (other than as an indoor house plant)
  
• Unarmed (no spines, thorns, or burrs)
  
• Ornamental value
  
• Grows predominantly as an epiphyte, and any potential impacts may be limited to competition with the native epiphytic biota of a region (i.e. unlikely to transform the fundamental structure of an ecosystem)