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Sabal bermudana L.H.Bailey

Bermuda palmetto; Bermuda palm; Palmetto

Arecaceae · Bermuda

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Summary

Sabal bermudana, commonly known as the Bermuda palmetto or bibby-tree, is one of 15 species of palm trees in the genus Sabal and is endemic to Bermuda although reportedly naturalized in the Leeward Islands. It was greatly affected by the introduction of non-native plants such as the Chinese fan palm, which created competition for space that it usually lost.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Sabal bermudana", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Sabal

Sabal is a genus of New World palms. Currently, there are 17 recognized species of Sabal, including one hybrid species.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Sabal", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope. 34 of the 35 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeBermuda · introduced: Leeward Is. AB Ant, Trinidad-Tobago · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker32.309, -64.744 · in the densest population, 35 records (100% of those in range)
Kew's description“tree” · “seasonally dry tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 35 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 7 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 4 km away. 38 records outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 34 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 35 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: author not stated, no rights reserved · CC0 (2); (c) nebrooks, some rights reserved (CC BY); (c) Alison Copeland, some rights reserved (CC BY) (2); (c) Thomas Irvine, some rights reserved (CC BY).

Other Sabal 13 in the reference

Sabal × brazoriensis Sabal × brazoriensis Arecaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Douglas GoldmanSabal causiarum Sabal causiarum Puerto Rican hat palm Photo: CC BY, fmunozSabal domingensis Sabal domingensis Hispaniola palmetto Photo: CC BY, Anthony BatistaSabal etonia Sabal etonia Scrub palmetto Photo: CC0, author not statedSabal maritima Sabal maritima Bull thatch Photo: CC0, author not statedSabal mauritiiformis Sabal mauritiiformis Trinidad palm Photo: CC BY, Nicolás Baresch UribeSabal mexicana Sabal mexicana Rio Grande palmetto Photo: CC0, author not statedSabal minor Sabal minor Dwarf palmetto Photo: CC BY, Blake BringhurstSabal palmetto Sabal palmetto Cabbage palm Photo: CC BY, William J. DemlSabal pumos Sabal pumos Royal palmetto Photo: CC BY, Alexis López HernándezSabal rosei Sabal rosei Arecaceae Photo: CC BY, Gustavo ZaRoSabal uresana Sabal uresana Sonoran Palmetto Photo: CC BY, Sue Carnahan all 14 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Inodes blackburnia; Inodes princeps; Sabal beccariana; Sabal blackburnia; Sabal princeps and 1 more. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Arecaceae
Described by
L.H.Bailey
Native to
Bermuda
Wild records
35 in range · 7 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 22 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (20 at a botanic garden or arboretum, 2 at a zoo; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild answeredasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-22none of the photographs on this page is credited to GBIF: those shown are other sources', and GBIF's were the same photographs or were set aside by the photograph rules
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 9 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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