{{Taxobox
| color = lightgreen
| name = Pūriri
| image = VitexLucens019.jpg
| image_width = 220px
| regnum = [[Plant]]ae
| divisio = [[Magnoliophyta]]
| classis = [[Magnoliopsida]]
| ordo = [[Lamiales]]
| familia = [[Verbenaceae]]
| genus = ''[[Vitex]]''
| species = '''''V. lucens'''''
| binomial = ''Vitex lucens''
| binomial_authority = Kirk
}}

[[Image:PuririFlowers.jpg|thumb|left|220px|He māwhero ngā pua o te Pūriri]][[Image:PuririLeaves.jpg|thumb|left|220px|He ātaahua, he tawherarima ngā raurau o te Pūriri]][[Image:Big_Puriri_Vitex_lucens.jpg|thumb|left|220px|He pūriri nui ki [[Ruapekapeka]]]]Ko te '''Pūriri''' he rākau nui whakaruruhau o [[Aotearoa]]. Kei te takutai o te raki o [[Te Ika-a-Māui]] e tupu ana, mai i [[Taranaki]] tae noa ki [[Te Reinga]], mai i Te Reinga tae noa ki [[Māhia]]. Ko ngā rau, he tawherarima. Ko ngā pua he kuratea, pērā anō te kano o ngā hua. Heoi, hei nohoanga te rākau ātaahua nei mō te [[pepetuna]]. Ko te ingoa pūtaiao he ''Vitex lucens''. Ko Pūriri anō te ingoa [[reo Pākehā]].

==Hoto ki waho==
* ''New Zealand Plant Conservation Network'', URL:[http://www.nzpcn.org.nz/vascular_plants/detail.asp?PlantID=1394 ''Vitex lucens'']. He mea kite i te 8 o ngā rā o Haratua, 2007.

==Tohutoro==
*Metcalf, Laurie, 2002. ''A Photographic Guide to Trees of New Zealand''. Tāmaki-makau-rau: New Holland.
*Salmon, J.T., 1986. ''The Native Trees of New Zealand''. Te Whanga-nui-a-Tara: Heinneman Reed.

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