Family: Phyllanthaceae

High Risk Traits:

• Elevation range exceeds 1000 m, demonstrating environmental versatility
  
• Thrives in tropical climates
  
• Widely naturalized
  
• Crop weed of Bananas, Cereals, Cotton, Orchards and Plantations, Pastures, Vegetables
  
• Other Phyllanthus species have become invasive
  
• Shade-tolerant
  
• Reproduces by seeds
  
• Seeds dispersed by wind, as a contaminant, by vehicles and intentionally by people
  
• Annual life cycle

Low Risk Traits:

• Unarmed (no spines, thorns or burrs)
  
• Provides fodder for livestock
  
• Edible and medicinal uses
  
• Not reported to spread vegetatively
  
• Herbicides provide effective control