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|accepted_name=Sabal
|accepted_authority=Adanson ex Guersent
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bulletin des Sciences, par la Societe Philomatique
|place=87: 205-206. 1804
|year=1804
}}
|common_names=Palmetto
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Inodes
|authority=O. F. Cook
}}
|hierarchy=Arecaceae;Arecaceae subfam. Coryphoideae;Arecaceae tribe Corypheae;Arecaceae (tribe Corypheae) subtribe Sabalinae;Sabal
|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 Sabalinae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Sabal]]</div></div>
|etymology=derivation of name unknown
|volume=Volume 22
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 107
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>dwarf, moderate, or tall, usually robust. <b>Stems</b> solitary, aerial or subterranean, covered with leaf bases or clean, obscurely [strongly] ringed, becoming striate or smooth with age. <b>Leaves</b> few to many; sheath fibers soft; petiole split at base, completely unarmed; adaxial hastula well -developed, obtuse to acuminate-triangular; costa present; blade weakly to strongly costapalmate; plication induplicate; segments lanceolate, basally connate to connate for 2 1/2 length [or in groups of 2 or 3 segments connate for nearly entire length], often bearing thread-like fibers between segments; apices acute or 2-cleft, stiff or lax. <b>Inflorescences</b> axillary within crown of leaves, paniculate, erect or arching beyond leaves [shorter than leaves], with 2 or 3[–4] orders of branching; peduncular bracts 2–5, tightly clasping, inconspicuous; rachillae glabrous. <b>Flowers</b> bisexual, borne singly along rachillae, sessile, creamy white, fragrant; perianth 2-seriate; calyx cupulate; 3-lobed; petals 3, imbricate, elliptic, obovate or spatulate, alternate with outer whorl of stamens [basally connate], basally adnate to filaments; stamens 6 in 2 whorls; filaments narrowly triangular, basally connate; anthers dorsifixed, versatile; pistils 1, 1-carpellate, glabrous; nectaries 3, septal; ovules 3, but usually only one develops into seed; stigma minutely 3-lobed, papillose. <b>Fruits</b> drupes, berrylike, spheroid [oblate or pyriform] or lobed when more than 1 seed develops; exocarp black; mesocarp blackish, dry to fleshy; endocarp brown, membranaceous. <b>Seeds</b> 1–3, oblate, glossy; endosperm bony, homogeneous; embryo nearly apical, lateral or nearly lateral; eophyll undivided, linear-lanceolate. nx = 18.</span><!--

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|distribution=North America;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America.
|discussion=<p><i>Sabal</i> flowers are bisexual and are pollinated mostly by native bees, especially of the families Halictidae and Megachilidae (S. Zona 1987, 1990), European honeybee, and wasps (Vespidae; P. F. Ramp 1989). Fruits are eagerly sought by both mammals (bears, deer, raccoons) and birds (S. Zona and A. Henderson 1989). <i>Sabal minor</i>, perhaps more than other species, is also dispersed by water (P. F. Ramp 1989; S. Zona 1990).</p><!--
--><p>Species 16 (5 in the flora).</p>
|tables=
|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=lockett1991a
|text=Lockett, L. 1991. Native Texas palms north of the lower Rio Grande Valley: Recent discoveries. Principes 35: 64--71.
}}{{Treatment/Reference
|id=simpson1988a
|text=Simpson, B. J. 1988. A Field Guide to Texas Trees. Austin.
}}{{Treatment/Reference
|id=zona1990a
|text=Zona, S. 1990. A monograph of Sabal (Arecaceae: Coryphoideae). Aliso 12: 583--666.
}}
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==Key==
<div class="treatment-key-group">
  
{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Inflorescences with 2 (rarely 3 in basal branches) orders of branching (not counting main axis).
|[[#key-0-2| > 2]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Inflorescence with 3 orders of branching.
|[[#key-0-3| > 3]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Leaf strongly costapalmate and curved, bearing fibers between segments; inflorescence bushy and compact, ± long as leaves
|[[Sabal etonia|Sabal etonia]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Leaf weakly costapalmate and little if at all curved, not bearing fibers between segments; inflorescence sparsely branched, much longer than leaves
|[[Sabal minor|Sabal minor]]
|-id=key-0-3
|3
|Stems subterranean; leaves 6 or fewer
|[[Sabal miamiensis|Sabal miamiensis]]
|-id=key-0-3
|3
|Stems usually aerial; leaves more than 10.
|[[#key-0-4| > 4]]
|-id=key-0-4
|4
|Fruit 8.1–13.9 mm diam.
|[[Sabal palmetto|Sabal palmetto]]
|-id=key-0-4
|4
|Fruit 14.8–19.3 mm diam
|[[Sabal mexicana|Sabal mexicana]]
|}
</div></div><!--

-->{{#Taxon:
name=Sabal
|author=
|authority=Adanson ex Guersent
|rank=genus
|parent rank=subtribe
|synonyms=Inodes
|basionyms=
|family=Arecaceae
|distribution=North America;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America.
|reference=lockett1991a;simpson1988a;zona1990a
|publication title=Bulletin des Sciences, par la Societe Philomatique
|publication year=1804
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f6b125a955440c0872999024f038d74684f65921/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V22/V22_524.xml
|subfamily=Arecaceae subfam. Coryphoideae
|tribe=Arecaceae tribe Corypheae
|subtribe=Arecaceae (tribe Corypheae) subtribe Sabalinae
|genus=Sabal
}}<!--

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