Sophora macnabiana

Sophora macnabiana is a tree formerly described from cultivated material. Indeed it is suitable for gardens, with showy flowers, numerous leaflets and tender pods. Native from central Chile, and Gough Island, also disseminated as ornamental in New Zealand, where challenges with S.tetraptera, the local Large-leaved kowhai

Taxonomy
S.macnabiana Shepherd and Hennan studied by chloroplast DNA analysis the relationships of Sophora (Edwardsia) species, they did not find close groups in the species of New Zealand, Chilean species did not form a monophyletic group. Taking into account 19 species only Sophora macnabiana is not limited to one island. Geographical closeness does not exclude the affinity of chloroplasts. Three haplotypes are divided between New Zealand and Chilean species (S.macnabiana or S. macrocarpa).

(S macrocarpa) Chilean folk name „MAYU” is the most remote of all the species Edwardsia. The intervention of man, Maori or other Polynesian tribes is not clearly defined