Family: Fabaceae

High Risk Traits:

• Naturalized beyond native range (Puerto Rico, Cuba, Trinidad, Christmas Island)
  
• Broad climate versatility (0–1300 m elevation; tropical/subtropical)
  
• Repeated introductions outside native range
  
• Host for pests/pathogens (e.g., stem borer Aristobia horridula)
  
• Nitrogen-fixing (alters soil nutrients)
  
• Self-compatible (can set seed from single tree)
  
• Propagules dispersed intentionally (planted ornamentally/for forestry)
  
• Wind-dispersed (winged pods)
  
• Water-dispersed (pods float)
  
• Tolerates mutilation, fire, coppicing (regrows after logging or fire)

Low Risk Traits:

• No congeneric weeds
  
• No spines, thorns, or burrs
  
• No allelopathy or parasitism
  
• Not toxic to animals or humans
  
• Requires specialist pollinators (large bees)
  
• No vegetative spread in wild
  
• Long minimum generative time (~4+ years)
  
• No unintentional dispersal (no attachment structures)
  
• Not bird-dispersed; no gut survival
  
• Low seed production (few seeds per pod)