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Maekawaea rhytidophylla is a small twining herb or trailing shrub in the pea family, native to northern and eastern Australia, New Guinea and New Caledonia. It is a rarely grown, wild plant with felty hairs and wrinkled leaves, so care advice is limited.
Maekawaea rhytidophylla is a small twining herb or trailing shrub in the family Fabaceae. The plant has rusty or felty hairs on all parts. Attractive pink flowers may form at any time of the year. It is native to eastern and northern Australia (Northern Territory, Queensland, and New South Wales) and to New Guinea and New Caledonia.
The specific epithet rhytidophylla is derived from Greek, describing the wrinkled leaves.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Maekawaea rhytidophylla by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
