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|accepted_name=Serenoa
|accepted_authority=Hooker f. in G. Bentham and J. D. Hooker
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in G. Bentham and J. D. Hooker,Gen. Pl.
|place=3: 879, 926, 1228. 1883
|year=1883
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|common_names=Saw palmetto
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Arecaceae;Arecaceae subfam. Coryphoideae;Arecaceae tribe Corypheae;Arecaceae (tribe Corypheae) subtribe Livistoninae;Serenoa
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Arecaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Arecaceae subfam. Coryphoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Arecaceae tribe Corypheae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subtribe</small>[[Arecaceae (tribe Corypheae) subtribe Livistoninae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Serenoa]]</div></div>
|etymology=for Sereno Watson, 1826–1892, botanist
|volume=Volume 22
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 104
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>moderate, clustered, shrubby. <b>Stems</b> branched or unbranched, procumbent or ascending, covered with leafbases or becoming striate or smooth with age. <b>Leaves</b>: sheath fibers soft; petiole base not split; petiole armed with fine teeth, sometimes only at base of petiole; abaxial hastula not well -developed, obtuse; adaxial hastula usually well -developed, obtuse; costa absent; blade palmate; plication induplicate; segments lanceolate, basally connate, apices acute or 2-cleft; cross veins conspicuous. <b>Inflorescences</b> axillary within crown of leaves, paniculate, ascending, about as long as leaves, with 2–3 orders of branching; main axis bearing 2 peduncular bracts above prophyll; rachillae pubescent. <b>Flowers</b> bisexual, borne singly or in pairs along rachillae, sessile; perianth 2-seriate; calyx cupulate, ,3-lobed; petals 3, imbricate, elliptic, reflexed, alternate with outer whorl of stamens, basally adnate to filaments; stamens 6 in 2 whorls; filaments narrowly triangular, basally connate; anthers dorsifixed, versatile; pistils 3, distinct basally, glabrous; ovules 3, only 1 developing into fruit; styles connate, elongate, glabrous; nectaries 3, septal; stigma minutely 3-lobed, dry. <b>Fruits</b> drupes, ellipsoid; exocarp black, smooth; mesocarp blackish; endocarp brown, bony. <b>Seeds</b> brown, ellipsoid, with conspicuous longitudinal raphe; endosperm bony, homogeneous; embryo nearly basal; eophyll undivided, lanceolate. nx = 18.</span><!--

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|distribution=North America.
|discussion=<p><i>Serenoa</i>, with a single polymorphic species, is endemic to the southeastern United States. It grows in a variety of habitats and communities including pine flatwoods, sand-pine scrub, and coastal sand dunes. It sometimes occurs in vast stands nearly excluding all other understory shrubs.</p><!--
--><p>The relationships of <i>Serenoa</i> are with <i>Acoelorraphe</i>, of the Caribbean Basin (N. W. Uhl et al. 1995), and perhaps Brahea, of Mexico and Central America (N. W. Uhl and J. Dransfield 1987).</p><!--
--><p>Species 1.</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=bennett1998a
|text=Bennett, B. C. and J. R. Hicklin. 1998. Uses of saw palmetto (Serenoa repens, Arecaceae (Bartr.) Small (saw palmetto) in Florida. Econ. Bot. 52: 381--393.
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|id=hawkes1950a
|text=Hawkes, A. D. 1950. Notes on the palms 2. Saw palmetto Serenoa repens Small. Natl. Hort. Mag. 29: 93--95.
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|id=hilmon1968a
|text=Hilmon, J. B. 1968. Autecology of Ssaw Ppalmetto (Serenoa repens (Bartr.) Small). Ph.D. dissertation. Duke University.
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|id=smith1972a
|text=Smith, D. 1972. Fruiting in the sSaw pPalmetto. Principes 16: 30--33.
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name=Serenoa
|author=
|authority=Hooker f. in G. Bentham and J. D. Hooker
|rank=genus
|parent rank=subtribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Arecaceae
|distribution=North America.
|reference=bennett1998a;hawkes1950a;hilmon1968a;smith1972a
|publication title=in G. Bentham and J. D. Hooker,Gen. Pl.
|publication year=1883
|special status=
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|subfamily=Arecaceae subfam. Coryphoideae
|tribe=Arecaceae tribe Corypheae
|subtribe=Arecaceae (tribe Corypheae) subtribe Livistoninae
|genus=Serenoa
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