Seediness as an Invasive Trait in Mimosa diplotricha Sauvalle in a Tropical Grassland

For successful invasion into an ecosystem, a species always depends upon some traits such as high growth rate, successive reproduction, higher number of seeds with low mass, seed viability and seedling mortality¹. Among these traits, the reproductive behaviour of a plant is mainly associated with its invasiveness². Seed production and germination are the two key processes associated with the initial phase of plant establishment, which determine the fate of an invasive plant in a new region¹, and that is especially true for annuals reproducing exclusively by seed³.