Family: Arecaceae

High Risk Traits:

• Naturalized in Tahiti
  
• Spiny trunks
  
• Shade-tolerant
  
• Tolerates many soil types
  
• May form dense thickets
  
• Able to spread by suckering
  
• Bird-dispersed seeds (Possibly pigs, rats, and mongoose in Hawaii)

Low Risk Traits:

• May only grow in low, humid, tropical conditions
  
• Ornamental Uses
  
• Invasive impacts not documented or unspecified in Tahiti