Family: Fabaceae

High Risk Traits:

• Elevation range ca. 2000 m, demonstrating environmental versatility
  
• Thrives in tropical climates
  
• Naturalized in Brazil, outside natural range, as well as in Southern Africa, Puerto Rico and possibly Tanzania
  
• Disturbance adapted
  
• Potential landscaping hazard (branches fall easily in wind)
  
• Invasive in Brazil, reducing native diversity
  
• Grows on many soil types
  
• Forms dense populations in areas
  
• Reproduces by seeds
  
• Seeds dispersed by wind, and intentionally planted by people
  
• Seeds form a persistent seed bank
  
• Able to coppice and resprout after cutting and pruning

Low Risk Traits:

• Unarmed (no spines, thorns or burrs)
  
• Light demanding (may not invade dense, intact forest)
  
• Self-incompatible
  
• Not reported to spread vegetatively
  
• Reaches maturity in 6 to 8 years
  
• Seeds relatively large and unlikely to be inadvertently dispersed