Taxon: Serenoa repens (W. Bartram) Small

Common names:

• saw-palmetto   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• scrub-palmetto   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• Sägezahnpalme   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  
• Strauchpalmettopalme   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  
• sågpalmetto   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Eur Gard F; Zander ed14)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Ency CNatIn; F NAmer; CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2)
  

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View phytochemical or ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama [s.], Florida, Georgia [s.e.], Louisiana [s.e.], Mississippi [s.], South Carolina

• also cultivated

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Glassman, S. F. 1972. Revis. Index Amer. Palms.
• Govaerts, R. & J. Dransfield. 2005. World checklist of palms.
• Leung, A. Y. & S. Foster. 1996. Encyclopedia of common natural ingredients used in food, drugs, and cosmetics, ed. 2.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Moore, H. E., Jr. 1963. An annotated checklist of cultivated palms. Principes 7:167.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Uhl, N. W. & J. Dransfield. 1987. Genera palmarum: a classification of palms based on the work of Harold E. Moore, Jr.
• Walters, S. M. et al., eds. 1986–. European garden flora.

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Serenoa repens.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Serenoa repens.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Serenoa repens.

Synonyms:

• (=) Chamaerops serrulata Michx.
  
• (≡) Corypha repens W. Bartram (basionym)
  
• (=) Sabal dealbata hort. ex L. H. Bailey
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (=) Sabal serrulata (Michx.) Nutt. ex Schult. & Schult. f.
  
• (=) Serenoa serrulata (Michx.) G. Nicholson
  (previously associated with 1 accession)

Check other web resources for Serenoa repens (W. Bartram) Small:

• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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