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''Sabal etonia'', commonly known as the scrub palmetto is a species of
palm Palm most commonly refers to: * Palm of the hand, the central region of the front of the hand * Palm plants, of family Arecaceae **List of Arecaceae genera * Several other plants known as "palm" Palm or Palms may also refer to: Music * Palm (ba ...
. It is native only to peninsular
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in the United States, where it is found in Florida sand pine scrub communities.


Description

''Sabal etonia'' is a
fan palm Fan palm as a descriptive term can refer to any of several different kinds of palms (Arecaceae) in various genera with leaves that are palmately lobed (rather than pinnately compound). Most are members of the subfamily Coryphoideae, though a few ...
with a solitary stem that is usually subterranean, but is sometimes above ground and up to tall. Plants usually have four to seven costapalmate leaves, each with 25–50 leaflets. The
inflorescence An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a stem that is composed of a main branch or a complicated arrangement of branches. Morphologically, it is the modified part of the shoot of seed plants where flowers are formed on ...
s, which are branched with a bushy appearance, are shorter than the leaves and bear brownish-black fruit. The fruit are and in diameter.Flora of North America Vol. 22 Page 108 Scrub palmetto, dwarf palmetto ''Sabal etonia'' Swingle ex Nash, Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club. 23: 99. 1896.
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Taxonomy

''Sabal'' is placed in the
subfamily In biological classification, a subfamily (Latin: ', plural ') is an auxiliary (intermediate) taxonomic rank, next below family but more inclusive than genus. Standard nomenclature rules end subfamily botanical names with "-oideae", and zoolog ...
Coryphoideae The Coryphoideae is one of five subfamilies in the palm family, Arecaceae. It contains all of the genera with palmate leaves, excepting '' Mauritia'', '' Mauritiella'' and '' Lepidocaryum,'' all of subfamily Calamoideae, tribe Lepidocaryeae, su ...
and the
tribe The term tribe is used in many different contexts to refer to a category of human social group. The predominant worldwide usage of the term in English is in the discipline of anthropology. This definition is contested, in part due to conflic ...
Sabaleae. The species was first described by American botanist
Walter Tennyson Swingle Walter Tennyson Swingle (January 8, 1871 – January 19, 1952) was an American agricultural botanist who contributed greatly to the classification and taxonomy of citrus. Biography Swingle was born in Canaan, Pennsylvania, and moved with his f ...
in 1896, based on collections made near
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, in 1894.


Gallery

File:Sabal etonia leaf.jpg, Detail of the leaf of ''S. etonia'' File:Scrub palmetto CANA.JPG, Scrub palmetto in the
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References

etonia Endemic flora of Florida Plants described in 1896 Flora without expected TNC conservation status {{Arecaceae-stub