Family: Fabaceae

High Risk Traits:

• Thrives in tropical climates
  
• Nitrogen fixing, and may modify soil chemistry and nutrient availability (also may be considered a desirable trait under certain circumstances)
  
• Fruits are single seeded wind-dispersed, dehiscent legumes which explode when dry

Low Risk Traits:

• No records of naturalization or invasiveness (although no evidence of cultivation outside native range)
  
• Limited climatic amplitude (may only thrive in low elevation tropical climates)
  
• Unarmed
  
• Slow-growing
  
• Shade-intolerant
  
• Timber tree