{{Taxobox
| color = lightgreen
| name = Kowhai
| image = Kowhai flowers.jpg
| image_width = 250px
| image_caption = He ātaahua ngā pua o te Kōwhai
| regnum = [[Plantae]]
| divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]
| classis = [[Magnoliopsida]]
| ordo = [[Fabales]]
| familia = [[Fabaceae]]
| subfamilia = [[Faboideae]]
| genus = ''[[Sophora]]''
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = 
''[[Sophora chathamica]]''<br>
''[[Sophora fulvida]]''<br>
''[[Sophora godleyi]]''<br>
''[[Sophora longicarinata]]''<br>
''[[Sophora microphylla]]''<br>
''[[Sophora molloyi]]''<br>
''[[Sophora prostrata]]''<br>
''[[Sophora tetraptera]]''<br>
}}
:<small>He tikanga anō nō te kupu '''kōwhai'''; koia tētahi o ngā [[kano]].</small> 
Ko '''Kōwhai''' te ingoa o ētahi [[rākau]], o ētahi mauwha hoki nō [[Aotearoa]]. He waru pea ngā momo Kōwhai; ko [[Kōwhai raunui]] (''Sophora tetraptera'') tētahi, ko [[Kōwhai rauriki]] (''Sophora microphylla'') tētahi. He momo ''Sophora'' hoki nō tāwāhi.


==Tirohia hoki==
*[[Rārangi kano]]

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

{{Rākau o Aotearoa}}
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[[Category:Rākau o Aotearoa]] 
[[Category:Mauwha o Aotearoa]]

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