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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Sabal minor
|accepted_authority=(Jacquin) Persoon
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Syn. Pl.
|place=1: 399. 1805
|year=1805
}}
|common_names=Dwarf palmetto;little blue stem;latanier
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Corypha minor
|authority=Jacquin
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Chamaerops acaulis
|authority=Michaux
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Chamaerops louisiana
|authority=W. Darby
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Corypha pumila
|authority=Walter
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Sabal adansonii
|authority=Guersent
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=S.abal adiantinum
|authority=Rafinesque
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=S.abal deeringiana
|authority=Small
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=S.abal louisiana
|authority=(W. Darby) Bomhard
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=S.abal pumila
|authority=(Walter) Elliott
}}
|hierarchy=Arecaceae;Arecaceae subfam. Coryphoideae;Arecaceae tribe Corypheae;Arecaceae (tribe Corypheae) subtribe Sabalinae;Sabal;Sabal minor
|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 class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Sabal minor]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 22
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 109
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Stems </b>usually subterranean. <b>Leaves</b> 4–10, dark green, weakly costapalmate, little if at all curved, not bearing fibers between segments; hastula obtuse, 0.8–4.7 cm; segments not filiferous, 34–—84 ´ 1.4–3.7 cm; apices weakly if at all bifid2-cleft. <b>Inflorescences</b> sparsely branched with 2 orders of branching (not counting main inflorescence axis), erect, much longer than leaves. <b>Flowers</b> 3.5–5.2 mm. <b>Fruits</b> brownish black, spheroid, length 6.2–8.5 mm, diam. 6.4–9.7 mm; pericarp thin. <b>Seeds</b> 3.5–5.1 mm, diam. 4.4–6.9 mm diam. <b>2n</b> = 36.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring–summer.
|habitat=Mesic hammocks, floodplains, levees, river banks, swamps, but occurring on much drier sites in west-central Tex.
|elevation=ca. 10–600 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Miss.;N.C.;Okla.;S.C.;Tex.;Mexico.
|discussion=<p>Previously thought to be endemic to the United States, this species was only recently found in Nuevo León, Mexico (D. H. Goldman 1999).</p><!--
--><p><i>Sabal minor</i> is usually a small palm with a subterranean trunk; however, one can find individuals with larger features and well-developed aerial stems. In Louisiana, these individuals were recognized as separate species (J. K. Small 1929; M. L. Bomhard 1935), but more recently they have been treated as merely ecological variants of a single widespread species (A. Henderson et al. 1995; P. F. Ramp and L. B. Thien 1995; S. Zona 1990). Large emergent forms of <i>S. minor</i> were even thought by B. J. Simpson (1988) to be hybrids of that species with <i>S. palmetto</i>, but his claim is undocumented and unsubstantiated.</p><!--
--><p>An unusual habitat for this species, a dry hillside in central Texas, was illustrated by L. Lockett (1991).</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=bomhard1935a
|text=Bomhard, M. L. 1935. Sabal louisiana, the correct name for the polymorphic palmetto of Louisiana. J. Wash. Acad. Sci. 25: 35--44.
}}{{Treatment/Reference
|id=goldman1999a
|text=Goldman, D. H. 1999. Distribution update: Sabal minor in Mexico. Palms 43: 40--44.
}}{{Treatment/Reference
|id=ramp1989a
|text=Ramp, P. F. 1989. Natural History of Sabal minor: Demography, Population Genetics and Reproductive Ecology. Ph.D. dissertation. Tulane University.
}}{{Treatment/Reference
|id=ramp1995a
|text=Ramp, P. F. and L. B. Thien. 1995. A taxonomic history and reexamination of Sabal minor in the Mississippi Valley. Principes 39: 77--83.
}}{{Treatment/Reference
|id=small1929a
|text=Small, J. K. 1929. Palmetto-with-a-stem---Sabal deeringiana. J. New York Bot. Gard. 30: 278--284.
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Sabal minor
|author=
|authority=(Jacquin) Persoon
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Chamaerops acaulis;Chamaerops louisiana;Corypha pumila;Sabal adansonii;S.abal adiantinum;S.abal deeringiana;S.abal louisiana;S.abal pumila
|basionyms=Corypha minor
|family=Arecaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring–summer.
|habitat=Mesic hammocks, floodplains, levees, river banks, swamps, but occurring on much drier sites in west-central Tex.
|elevation=ca. 10–600 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Miss.;N.C.;Okla.;S.C.;Tex.;Mexico.
|reference=bomhard1935a;goldman1999a;ramp1989a;ramp1995a;small1929a
|publication title=Syn. Pl.
|publication year=1805
|special status=
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|subfamily=Arecaceae subfam. Coryphoideae
|tribe=Arecaceae tribe Corypheae
|subtribe=Arecaceae (tribe Corypheae) subtribe Sabalinae
|genus=Sabal
|species=Sabal minor
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