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Vouapa (native name in Guiana). Leguminosae. Unarmed trees, rarely cult.: lvs. abruptly or somewhat odd-pinnately-compound; lfts. sometimes 1 or few-paired, sometimes many-paired; stipules leafy or inconspicuous: fls. yellow, red, or white, small or medium-sized, in terminal and axillary simple racemes or shortly fascicled-paniculate; calyx-tube bearing a disk, short-turbinate, rarely narrow, segms. 4; petals, uppermost clawed, 2-4, lower small, scale-like or none; perfect stamens 3; ovary stipitate, 3- to many-ovuled: pod obliquely orbiculate, ovate-oblong or falcate, plano-compressed, leathery, 2-valved. About 45 species, Trop. Amer. and Trop. Afr. This is the oldest generic name, but the name Macrolobium is retained by the list of "nomina conservanda" accepted at Vienna. Macrolobium bifolium, Pers. (M. Vuapa, J. F. Gmel. Vouapa bifolia, Aubl.). Tree, about 10 ft. high: lfts. sessile, ovate, acuminate, oblique: fls. violet; calyx-lobes spreading; stamens nearly equaling the corolla. Guiana.
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==Cultivation==
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==Species==
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==References==
*[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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