Sabal miamiensis Zona (1985:366)
Miami palmetto, Miami sabal palm
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct in the Wild (Christenhusz & Govaerts, 2024) or Invalid (synonym of S. etonia) (POWO, 2018 fide Humphreys et al., 2019; POWO, 2024)
Last wild record: 1901 (Christenhusz & Govaerts, 2024)
Distribution
Dade County, Florida, USA
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Zona, Scott. (1985). A new species of Sabal (Palmae) from Florida. Brittonia 37: 366-368.
Other references:
Christenhusz, Maarten J. M. and Govaerts, Rafaël. (2024). Plant extinction in the Anthropocene. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. https://doi.org/10.1093/botlinnean/boae045 [Appendix S1]
Govaerts, R. and Dransfield, J. (2005). World Checklist of Palms: 1-223. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Humphreys, Aelys M., Govaerts, Rafaël, Ficinski, Sarah Z., Lughadha, Eimear Nic and Vorontsova, Maria S. (2019). Global dataset shows geography and life form predict modern plant extinction and rediscovery. Nature Ecology & Evolution 3: 1043-1047. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-0906-2 [Supplementary Dataset 1]
POWO. (2018). Plants of the World online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. http://e-monocot.org/.
POWO. (2024). Sabal etonia Swingle ex Nash. Plants of the World Online (online resource). Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom. Available at: https://powo.science.kew.org/ [Accessed 15 February 2024]
Walter, Kerry S. and Gillett, Harriet J. (eds.). (1998). 1997 IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants. Compiled by the World Conservation Monitoring Centre. Gland, Switzerland & Cambridge, UK: IUCN – The World Conservation Union. lxiv + 862 pp.
Zona, Scott. (1990). A monograph of Sabal (Arecaceae: Coryphoideae). Aliso 12(4): 583-666.
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