Sophora violacea

Purple kōwhai
Conservation status
	; Critically Endangered (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Rosids
Order:	Fabales
Family:	Fabaceae
Genus:	Sophora
Species:	S. violacea
Binomial name
	Sophora violacea; Thwaites[1]
Synonyms[2]
	Sophora rubriflora P.C.Tsoong;

Sophora violacea [3], also known as purple kōwhai,(S. rubriflora [4]), grows naturally in the west of the Sri Lanka from north to south East and Java[5]

References

Enum. Pl. Zeyl. 94. 1859
PC Tsoong and Ma (1981) Acta phytotax Sinica 19 143 167
Yákovlev, GP. 1967. Zametki po sistematike i geographii roda Sophora L. i blizkikh rodov. Trudy Leningradskogo khimico-farmacevticheskogo instituta. 21:42-62
Plant List
A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon [1980] edited by M.D. Dassanayake and F.R. Fosberg vol.I, p.440

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[1] Enum. Pl. Zeyl. 94. 1859

[2] PC Tsoong and Ma (1981) Acta phytotax Sinica 19 143 167

[3] Yákovlev, GP. 1967. Zametki po sistematike i geographii roda Sophora L. i blizkikh rodov. Trudy Leningradskogo khimico-farmacevticheskogo instituta. 21:42-62

[4] Plant List

[5] A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon [1980] edited by M.D. Dassanayake and F.R. Fosberg vol.I, p.440