{{Taxobox
| color = lightgreen
| name = Nīkau
| status = LR/cd
| image = NikauPalmNZ.jpg
| regnum = [[Plant]]ae
| divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]
| classis = [[Liliopsida]]
| ordo = [[Arecales]]
| familia = [[Arecaceae]]
| genus = ''[[Rhopalostylis]]''
| species = '''''R. sapida'''''
| binomial = ''Rhopalostylis sapida''
| binomial_authority = [[Hermann Wendland|H.Wendl.]] & [[Carl Georg Oscar Drude|Drude]]
}}
[[Image:Nikau002.jpg|thumb|left|240px|Ka puta ngā pua i te kōhiwi o te Nīkau; hei kai mā te [[Kererū]] ngā hua whero nei]]Ko te '''{{PAGENAME}}''' he rākau whakauru, he rākau taketake o [[Aotearoa]]. Ka whakamahia ngā rau hei rauwhare. Ki ētahi, he ingoa [[reo Māori]] anō mō te mea pakeke rawa, arā he ''Kaihuia''. Ka kohia te rito o te nīkau, hei kai. Kei ngā moutere mahana o te [[Moana-nui-a-Kiwa]], ko ''nīkau'' he ingoa mō ngā rau o te niu, arā o te [[kokonati]]. Ko te ingoa pūtaiao he ''Rhopalostylis sapida'', ko te ingoa [[reo Pākehā]] he ''Nīkau palm''.

==Hoto ki waho==
* ''New Zealand Plant Conservation Network'', URL: [http://www.nzpcn.org.nz/vascular_plants/detail.asp?PlantID=1290 ''Rhopalostylis sapida''], he mea kite i te 21 o ngā rā o Haratua, 2007.
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==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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