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Internal ID UUID643feb7427b4a238769977
Scientific name Sabal mexicana
Authority Mart.
First published in Hist. Nat. Palm. 3: 246 (1838)

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Inodes exul O.F.Cook U.S.D.A. Bur. Pl. Industr. Circ. 113: 14 (1913)
Inodes mexicana Standl. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 13: 71 (1920)
Inodes texana O.F.Cook Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 28: 534 (1901)
Sabal exul L.H.Bailey Rhodora 18: 155 (1916)
Sabal guatemalensis Becc. Webbia 2: 68 (1908)
Sabal texana Becc. Webbia 2: 73 (1908)
Erythea loretensis M.E.Jones Contr. W. Bot. 18: 29 (1933)

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Language Common/alternative name
English mexican palmetto
English texas palmetto
English victoria palmetto
English rio grande palmetto
Spanish palma de micheros
Spanish soyate
Spanish palma redonda
Spanish palma de mícheros
Spanish palma apachite
Spanish guano redondo
Spanish palma real
Arabic سبال مكسيكي
Croatian meksički palmeto
Hungarian mexikói szabalpálma
Japanese メキシコサバル
Chinese 墨西哥菜棕
Chinese 墨西哥箬棕

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  • Northern America
    • Mexico
      • Mexico Gulf
      • Mexico Northeast
      • Mexico Southeast
      • Mexico Southwest
    • South-central U.S.A.
      • Texas
  • Southern America
    • Central America
      • El Salvador
      • Guatemala
      • Honduras
      • Nicaragua

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000299293
USDA Plants SAME8
Tropicos 2400612
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:669717-1
The Plant List kew-181045
PFAF Sabal mexicana
Open Tree Of Life 180698
NCBI Taxonomy 469730
Nature Serve 2.159246
IUCN Red List 56359763
IPNI 669717-1
iNaturalist 168257
GBIF 2732503
Freebase /m/080c811
EPPO SABME
EOL 1131510
USDA GRIN 32590
Wikipedia Sabal_mexicana

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A review of the melliferous flora of Yucatan peninsula, Mexico, on the basis for the honey production cycle Zúñiga-Díaz D, Cetzal-Ix W, López-Castilla H, Noguera-Savelli E, Tamayo-Cen I, Martínez-Puc JF, Basu SK J Ethnobiol Ethnomed 25-Mar-2024
PMCID:PMC10964660
doi:10.1186/s13002-024-00681-0
PMID:38528551
Palm Sunday in central Mexico: among sellers, palms and syncretism Briseño-Tellez JM, Pulido Silva MT, Bautista K, García Mera A, Larios-Lozano O, López Gutiérrez BN, López López YA, Mendoza Cruz Y, Monzalvo R, Ortega-Meza D, Sánchez Trejo EC, Zepeda-Hernández ZK J Ethnobiol Ethnomed 03-Jun-2023
PMCID:PMC10239146
doi:10.1186/s13002-023-00587-3
PMID:37268987
Silvicultural Practices in the Management of Diospyros melanoxylon (Tendu) Leaf Production: Options and Trade-offs Date AA, Hiremath AJ, Joshi AA, Lele S Econ Bot 11-Apr-2023
PMCID:PMC10088608
doi:10.1007/s12231-023-09572-z
PMID:37359048
Effects of Scarification, Phytohormones, Soil Type, and Warming on the Germination and/or Seedling Performance of Three Tamaulipan Thornscrub Forest Species Luera P, Wahl-Villarreal K, Christoffersen BO, Treviño A, Soti P, Gabler CA Plants (Basel) 21-Jul-2021
PMCID:PMC8400868
doi:10.3390/plants10081489
PMID:34451534
Carbon Fluxes and Stocks by Mexican Tropical Forested Wetland Soils: A Critical Review of Its Role for Climate Change Mitigation Zamora S, Sandoval-Herazo LC, Ballut-Dajud G, Del Ángel-Coronel OA, Betanzo-Torres EA, Marín-Muñiz JL Int J Environ Res Public Health 09-Oct-2020
PMCID:PMC7600055
doi:10.3390/ijerph17207372
PMID:33050293
Home gardens’ agrobiodiversity and owners’ knowledge of their ecological, economic and socio-cultural multifunctionality: a case study in the lowlands of Tabasco, México Avilez-López T, van der Wal H, Aldasoro-Maya EM, Rodríguez-Robles U J Ethnobiol Ethnomed 20-Jul-2020
PMCID:PMC7370461
doi:10.1186/s13002-020-00392-2
PMID:32690045
Spatial aggregation of fruits explains food selection in a neotropical primate (Alouatta pigra) Aristizabal JF, Negrete-Yankelevich S, Macías-Ordóñez R, Chapman CA, Serio-Silva JC Sci Rep 19-Dec-2019
PMCID:PMC6923416
doi:10.1038/s41598-019-55932-y
PMID:31857630
Vapor-printed polymer electrodes for long-term, on-demand health monitoring Kim JJ, Allison LK, Andrew TL Sci Adv 15-Mar-2019
PMCID:PMC6420315
doi:10.1126/sciadv.aaw0463
PMID:30899786
Chronic leaf harvesting reduces reproductive success of a tropical dry forest palm in northern Mexico Lopez-Toledo L, Perez-Decelis A, Macedo-Santana F, Cuevas E, Endress BA PLoS One 18-Oct-2018
PMCID:PMC6193635
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0205178
PMID:30335793
Presence of 16SrIV phytoplasmas of subgroups A, D and E in planthopper Haplaxius crudus Van Duzee insects in Yucatán, Mexico Narváez M, Vázquez-Euán R, Harrison NA, Nic-Matos G, Julia JF, Dzido JL, Fabre S, Dollet M, Oropeza C 3 Biotech 11-Jan-2018
PMCID:PMC5762597
doi:10.1007/s13205-018-1094-5
PMID:29354372
Coconut Lethal Yellowing Diseases: A Phytoplasma Threat to Palms of Global Economic and Social Significance Gurr GM, Johnson AC, Ash GJ, Wilson BA, Ero MM, Pilotti CA, Dewhurst CF, You MS Front Plant Sci 26-Oct-2016
PMCID:PMC5080360
doi:10.3389/fpls.2016.01521
PMID:27833616
Effects of Harvest on the Sustainability and Leaf Productivity of Populations of Two Palm Species in Maya Homegardens Martínez-Ballesté A, Martorell C PLoS One 24-Mar-2015
PMCID:PMC4372575
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0120666
PMID:25803029
Host specificity in vascular epiphytes: a review of methodology, empirical evidence and potential mechanisms Wagner K, Mendieta-Leiva G, Zotz G AoB Plants 06-Jan-2015
PMCID:PMC4306756
doi:10.1093/aobpla/plu092
PMID:25564514
Contagious Deposition of Seeds in Spider Monkeys' Sleeping Trees Limits Effective Seed Dispersal in Fragmented Landscapes González-Zamora A, Arroyo-Rodríguez V, Escobar F, Rös M, Oyama K, Ibarra-Manríquez G, Stoner KE, Chapman CA PLoS One 27-Feb-2014
PMCID:PMC3937327
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0089346
PMID:24586705
Wood Consumption by Geoffroyi’s Spider Monkeys and Its Role in Mineral Supplementation Chaves OM, Stoner KE, Ángeles-Campos S, Arroyo-Rodríguez V PLoS One 28-Sep-2011
PMCID:PMC3182180
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0025070
PMID:21969868

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