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Sabal palmetto persistent leaf bases attached to stem

Sabal palmetto stem with leaf bases no longer attached

Sabal palmetto stems with and without old leaf bases

Sabal palmetto split petioles and leaf bases

Sabal palmetto leaf curved by costa

Sabal palmetto leaf curved by costa

Sabal palmetto with ramenta on abaxial midrib of young leaf segment

Sabal palmetto inflorescence

Sabal palmetto seeds. Photograph courtesy of Mariana P. Beckman, DPI

Serenoa repens habit

Serenoa repens blue-green form

Serenoa repens with stem growing upright

Serenoa repens with creeping stem after a recent fire

Serenoa repens "saw" teeth on petiole

Serenoa repens adaxial hastula.

Serenoa repens abaxial hastula

Serenoa repens abaxial hastula of blue-green leaf

Serenoa repens blue-green leaf form

Serenoa repens leaf segments with bifid tips

Serenoa repens inflorescence

Serenoa repens fruit. Photograph courtesy of Fairchild Tropical Botanical Garden, Guide to Palms http://palmguide.org/index.php

Serenoa repens seeds. Photograph courtesy of Mariana P. Beckman, DPI

Syagrus romanzoffiana habit

Syagrus romanzoffiana stem with leaf scars

Syagrus romanzoffiana canopy

Syagrus romanzoffiana leaflets

Syagrus romanzoffiana ramenta on abaxial leaf midrib

Syagrus romanzoffiana segment of leaf rachis (adaxial)

Syagrus romanzoffiana closer view if segment of leaf rachis (adaxial) and leaflet attachment (mm scale)

Syagrus romanzoffiana segment of leaf rachis (abaxial)

Syagrus romanzoffiana closer view of tomentum on leaf rachis (abaxial)

Syagrus romanzoffiana woody bracts and fruit