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Taxon:  Sabal minor (Jacq.) Pers.



Summary
Genus:
Sabal
Family:
Arecaceae (alt. Palmae)
Subfamily:
Coryphoideae
Tribe:
Sabaleae
Nomen number:
32591
Place of publication:
Syn. pl. 1:399. 1805
Verified:
04/30/2013 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
0 (0  active, 0  available) in Australian Pastures Genebank. 
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Basionym
Corypha minor Jacq.

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Sabal adansonii Guers.

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Chamaerops glabra Mill.
Chamaerops louisiana Darby
Sabal glabra (Mill.) Sarg.
Sabal louisiana (Darby) Bomhard
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Reference(s)
  1. Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin). 2009
  2. Encke, F. et al. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. 1984
  3. FNA Editorial Committee. Flora of North America. 1993-
  4. Glassman, S. F. 1972. A revision of B. E. Dahlgren's Index of American palms. Phanerog. Monogr. 6:1-294.
  5. Grellin, J. K. & J. Philpott. A reference guide to medicinal plants. 1990
  6. Huxley, A., ed. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. 1992
  7. Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. Hortus third. 1976
  8. Little, E. L., Jr. Checklist of United States trees, Agric. Handb. 541. 1979
  9. Moerman, D. Native American ethnobotany, ed. 5. 1998
  10. Moore, H. E., Jr. 1963. An annotated checklist of cultivated palms. Principes 7:165.
  11. Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
  12. Radford, A. E. et al. Manual of the vascular flora of the Carolinas. 1964
  13. Zona, S. 1990. A monograph of Sabal (Arecaceae: Coryphoideae). Aliso 12:643-646.
Common names
English
bluestem palmetto –
bush palmetto –
dwarf palmetto –
little-bluestem –
scrub palmetto –
French
latanier –
Swedish
buskpalmetto –
Distribution
order_codeStatusContinentSubcontinentCountryStateNote
1NativeNorthern AmericaNorth-Central U.S.A.United StatesOklahoma 
1NativeNorthern AmericaSouth-Central U.S.A.United StatesTexas 
1NativeNorthern AmericaSoutheastern U.S.A.United StatesAlabama 
1NativeNorthern AmericaSoutheastern U.S.A.United StatesArkansas 
1NativeNorthern AmericaSoutheastern U.S.A.United StatesFlorida 
1NativeNorthern AmericaSoutheastern U.S.A.United StatesGeorgia 
1NativeNorthern AmericaSoutheastern U.S.A.United StatesLouisiana 
1NativeNorthern AmericaSoutheastern U.S.A.United StatesMississippi 
1NativeNorthern AmericaSoutheastern U.S.A.United StatesNorth Carolina 
1NativeNorthern AmericaSoutheastern U.S.A.United StatesSouth Carolina 
2Cultivated     
Native
Northern America
  • NORTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [Oklahoma]
  • SOUTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [Texas]
  • SOUTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina]
Cultivated ()
Economic Uses
UsageTypeNoteReference
Environmentalornamental Huxley, A., ed. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. 1992
Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2026. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN Taxonomy). National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: https://apg.pir.sa.gov.au/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomydetail?id=32591. Accessed 18 May 2026.


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