Manoao

{{Short description|Genus of conifers endemic to New Zealand}}

{{For|the other New Zealand podocarp named manoao|Halocarpus kirkii}}

{{Use New Zealand English|date=July 2024}}

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| image = Manoao colensoi 11.JPG

| image_caption = Manoao foliage

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Thomas, P. |author2=Farjon, A. |date=2013 |title=Manoao colensoi |volume=2013 |page=e.T42482A2982206 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-1.RLTS.T42482A2982206.en |access-date=19 November 2021}}

| genus = Manoao

| parent_authority = Molloy

| species = colensoi

| authority = (Hook.) Molloy

}}

Manoao ({{IPAc-en|"|m|A:|n|oU|aU}} {{respell|MAH|noh|ow}}){{Cite book|title=The Chambers Dictionary|publisher=Chambers|year=2003|isbn=0-550-10105-5|edition=9th|chapter=manoao}} is a monotypic genus in the family Podocarpaceae. The single species, M. colensoi, commonly known as manoao (from Māori), silver pine, Westland pine, or white silver pine, is endemic to New Zealand. Before 1996 it was classified in genus Dacrydium or Lagarostrobos, but has recently been recognised as a distinct genus; some botanists still treat it in Lagarostrobos on the basis that it is not phylogenetically distinct from that genus. In molecular phylogenetic analyses Manoao was found to be related to Parasitaxus (a parasitic and monotypic genus from New Caledonia) and Lagarostrobos (a single species from Tasmania when narrowly defined), but their exact relationships are unresolved.{{Cite journal|last1=Sinclair|first1=W.T.|last2=Mill|first2=R.R.|last3=Gardner|first3=M.F.|last4=Woltz|first4=P.|last5=Jaffré|first5=T.|last6=Preston|first6=J.|last7=Hollingsworth|first7=M.L.|last8=Ponge|first8=A.|last9=Möller|first9=M.|date=2002-09-01|title=Evolutionary relationships of the New Caledonian heterotrophic conifer, Parasitaxus usta (Podocarpaceae), inferred from chloroplast trn L-F intron/spacer and nuclear rDNA ITS2 sequences|journal=Plant Systematics and Evolution|volume=233|issue=1–2|pages=79–104|doi=10.1007/s00606-002-0199-8|bibcode=2002PSyEv.233...79S |s2cid=25692189|issn=0378-2697}}

Manoao colensoi is a slow-growing evergreen tree up to {{Convert|15|m|abbr = on}} in height, in shady, wet areas of New Zealand. It is a source of fine, straight and durable timber.