Please Help to identify a palm - my palm plants were killed in a fire

[matmatj3]

I had these palm plants like this all around my yard in Miami but a lot of them were killed in a fire on my patio. They have a distinctive looking stem or trunk. Does anyone know what kind of palm this is? They are bushes that grow low to the ground.  I attached 3 pictures

Edited October 26, 2022 by matmatj3

[Marius]

Hi. It looks like Chamaedorea cataractarum to me. 

[Jim in Los Altos]

Cat Palm (Chamaedorea cataractum)

[matmatj3]

It does look like a cat palm actually, and it has dark berries which look like the cat palm berries. but my plants don't have berries right now to take a picture.  The cat palms I've seen in the pictures and at stores don't have stems like in the picture of my plants. The green stems come straight out of the dirt. 

Edited October 26, 2022 by matmatj3

[PalmatierMeg]

Still cat palms. With time and age they can grow knobby stems that can be several inches to a foot tall. I ripped out my last cat palm last year and it looked just like yours. Stems appear to rise from the soil when the palms are very young - the growing points are still underground.  Cat palms are reasonably common (pre-Ian anyway) so you should be able to replace yours if you wish.

[matmatj3]

Thank you. That is what I was trying to find out.  it says in Wikipedia for cat palms  "As the trunk grows, it creeps across the ground" but I haven't seen any picture of it.  I have seen cat palms in stores so that's good. I should be able to replace them.