Sabal etonia, commonly known as the scrub palmetto is a species of palm. It is endemic to Florida in the United States, where it is found in Florida sand pine scrub communities.Biota of North America Program 2014 county distribution map
Description Sabal etonia is a fan palm with a solitary stem that is usually subterranean, but is sometimes above ground and can usually grow to tall.Palmpedia Sabal etonia Description Plants usually have four to seven costapalmate leaves, each with 25–50 leaflets. The inflorescences, which are branched with a bushy appearance, are shorter than the leaves and bear brownish-black fruit. The fruit are and in diameter.Flora of North America Vol. 22 Page 108 Scrub palmetto, dwarf palmetto Sabal etonia Swingle ex Nash, Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club. 23: 99. 1896.
Taxonomy Sabal is placed in the subfamily Coryphoideae and the tribe Sabaleae.
The species was first described by American botanist Walter Tennyson Swingle in 1896, based on collections made near Eustis, Florida, in 1894. Sabal miamiensis is treated as either a synonym or a separate species by different authors.
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