View source for Serenoa ← Serenoa You do not have permission to edit this page, for the following reason: The action you have requested is limited to users in the group: Users. You can view and copy the source of this page. {{Treatment/ID |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 }} |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 }}<!-- --><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><!-- -->{{Treatment/Body |distribution=North America. |discussion=<p>Serenoa, 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 Serenoa are with Acoelorraphe, 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> |tables= |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. }}{{Treatment/Reference |id=hawkes1950a |text=Hawkes, A. D. 1950. Notes on the palms 2. Saw palmetto Serenoa repens Small. Natl. Hort. Mag. 29: 93--95. }}{{Treatment/Reference |id=hilmon1968a |text=Hilmon, J. B. 1968. Autecology of Ssaw Ppalmetto (Serenoa repens (Bartr.) Small). Ph.D. dissertation. Duke University. }}{{Treatment/Reference |id=smith1972a |text=Smith, D. 1972. Fruiting in the sSaw pPalmetto. Principes 16: 30--33. }} }}<!-- --><!-- -->{{#Taxon: 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= |source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/9216fc802291cd3df363fd52122300479582ede7/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V22/V22_244.xml |subfamily=Arecaceae subfam. 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