Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Sabal maritima is a fan palm with solitary, stout stems, which grows up to 15 metres (49 ft) tall and 25 40 centimetres (10 16 in) in diameter. Plants have about 25 leaves, each with 70 110 leaflets. The inflorescences, which are branched and as long as the leaves, bear pear-shaped to globose, black fruit. The fruit are 0.8 1.4 centimetres (0.3 0.6 in) in diameter. Sabal is placed in the subfamily Coryphoideae and the tribe Sabaleae. As of 2008, there appear to be no molecular phylogenetic studies of Sabal.