Sabal

• Authority

  Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.

• Family

  Arecaceae

• Scientific Name

  Sabal

• Description

  Genus Description - Unarmed palms, the stems erect, creeping or subterranean, the leaves palmately cleft, with a long petiole and a short raehis, the narrow segments bearing marginal fibres, 1-cleft or 2-cleft, the petiole concave above. Panicles spreading or drooping. Flowers perfect, white or greenish. Calyx-lobes 3, unequal. Petals 3, imbricated. Stamens 6; filaments subulate or lanceolate, united at the base. Ovary 3-celled; style 3-angled; stigma truncate. Drupes solitary, with a thin epicarp and a fleshy pericarp. Seed depressed-globose, hard, the endosperm bony. [Name not explained.] About 18 species, of the southern United States, Bermuda, West Indies, Mexico, and northern South America. Type species: Sabal Adansoni Guersent (&. glabra (Mill.) Sargent).