Family: Fabaceae

High Risk Traits:

• Thrives in tropical climates
  
• Naturalized on Oahu (Hawaiian Islands)
  
• Classified as a potential environmental weed, and controlled by the Department of Forestry and Wildlife as a possible threat to natural areas
  
• Shade tolerant
  
• Nitrogen fixing (may alter soil chemistry)
  
• Reproduces by seeds
  
• Self-fertile (based on observations of a single tree's ability to produce seedlings)
  
• Seeds dispersed by wind, possibly water, and intentionally by people
  
• Gaps in biological and ecological information may reduce accuracy of risk prediction

Low Risk Traits:

• Although documented as invasive, impacts and threats to native ecosystems are unclear
  
• Unarmed (no spines, thorns, or burrs)
  
• Not reported to spread vegetatively