Biology:Sabal etonia
| Sabal etonia | |
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| Sabal etonia at Archbold Biological Station, Florida, United States | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Clade: | Commelinids |
| Order: | Arecales |
| Family: | Arecaceae |
| Genus: | Sabal |
| Species: | S. etonia
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| Binomial name | |
| Sabal etonia Swingle ex Nash
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Sabal etonia, commonly known as the scrub palmetto[3] is a species of palm. It is endemic to Florida in the United States, where it is found in Florida sand pine scrub communities.[2][4][5]
Description
Sabal etonia is a fan palm with a solitary stem that is usually subterranean, but is sometimes above ground and can usually grow 0.9 m (3.0 ft) to 1.2 m (3.9 ft) tall.[2] [6] Plants usually have four to seven costapalmate leaves, each with 25–50 leaflets. The inflorescences, which are branched with a bushy appearance, are shorter than the leaves and bear brownish-black fruit. The fruit are 0.9–1.5 cm (0.4–0.6 in) and 0.8–1.3 cm (0.3–0.5 in) in diameter.[7][5]
Taxonomy
Sabal is placed in the subfamily Coryphoideae and the tribe Sabaleae.[8]
The species was first described by American botanist Walter Tennyson Swingle in 1896, based on collections made near Eustis, Florida, in 1894.[9] Sabal miamiensis is treated as either a synonym or a separate species by different authors.
Gallery
Detail of the leaf of S. etonia
References
- ↑ "NatureServe Explorer 2.0. Sabal etonia.". https://explorer.natureserve.org/Taxon/ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.152376/Sabal_etonia.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Sabal etonia". Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/synonomy.do?accepted_id=181025&repSynonym_id=-9998&name_id=181025&status=true. Retrieved 2009-06-01.
- ↑ "Sabal etonia". Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database. USDA. https://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=SAET. Retrieved 26 October 2015.
- ↑ Biota of North America Program 2014 county distribution map
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 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.
- ↑ Palmpedia Sabal etonia Description
- ↑ Henderson, Andrew; Gloria Galeano; Rodrigo Bernal (1995). Field Guide to the Palms of the Americas. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. p. 65. ISBN 0-691-08537-4.
- ↑ Roncal, Julissa; Scott Zona; Carl E. Lewis (2008). "Molecular Phylogenetic Studies of Caribbean Palms (Arecaceae) and Their Relationships to Biogeography and Conservation". The Botanical Review 74 (1): 78–102. doi:10.1007/s12229-008-9005-9. "no".
- ↑ Nash, Geo. V. (1896). "Notes on Some Florida Plants.-II". Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club (Torrey Botanical Society) 23 (3): 95–108. doi:10.2307/2478121.
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