Sabal

Accepted species 18 Documented here 7 Family Arecaceae

Accepted species 18 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Sabal palmetto (Walter) Lodd. ex Schult. & Schult.f. 877 documented
Sabal minor (Jacq.) Pers. 750 documented
Sabal mexicana Mart. 110 documented
Sabal etonia Swingle ex Nash 68 documented
Sabal yapa Becc. 29 documented
Sabal causiarum (O.F.Cook) Becc. 10 documented
Sabal uresana Trel. 5 documented
Sabal domingensis Becc. 2 below the evidence gate
Sabal maritima (Kunth) Burret 2 below the evidence gate
Sabal bermudana L.H.Bailey 1 below the evidence gate
Sabal pumos (Kunth) Burret 1 below the evidence gate
Sabal × brazoriensis D.H.Goldman, Lockett & Read 0 below the evidence gate
Sabal antillensis M.P.Griff. 0 below the evidence gate
Sabal gretherae H.J.Quero 0 below the evidence gate
Sabal lougheediana M.P.Griff. & Coolen 0 below the evidence gate
Sabal mauritiiformis (H.Karst.) Griseb. & H.Wendl. 0 below the evidence gate
Sabal miamiensis Zona 0 below the evidence gate
Sabal rosei (O.F.Cook) Becc. 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.