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Sabal miamiensis
Also called Dwarf Palmetto
Sabal miamiensis, the Miami palmetto or Miami palm, is an endemic, critically imperiled palm species to Dade County, Florida, especially in the vicinity of the city of Miami. Sabal miamiensis was considered extinct in the wild until 2024.
Sabal miamiensis grows in the pine rocklands on the Miami Rock Ridge of the South Florida rocklands. Features of the habitat include thin soils over the oolitic limestone of the Miami Limestone, an overstory of Florida slash pine (Pinus elliottii). The thin soil and porous limestone create a sharply draining catena. The pine rockland habitat is classified as imperiled. Outside of Everglades National Park, 98% of the pine rocklands in Florida have been converted to urban land uses, roads and highways, agriculture, and silviculture (pine plantations).
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Sabal miamiensis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
