Fig. 3. Time lag between the 1 in How long does it take to discover a species?

Fig. 3. Time lag between the 1st specimen collected, the 15th specimen collected and the moment when at least 15 specimens are correctly determined for Aframomum. Each line represents a different species in the genus. Average time lag to accumulate 15 collections of Aframomum species is 60.5 years, whereas it takes, on average, another four decades to accumulate 15 correctly identified ones.