Table 1.

Summary statistics of Kaplan-Meir curves, indicating the time to detect heterotypic synonyms of Amazonian palms.

	no. heterotypic synonyms	time to detect 50% of all heterotypic synonyms	time to detect the first 10% of all heterotypic synonyms	time to detect the last 10% of all heterotypic synonyms
all heterotypic synonyms	798	79	38	138
taxa described until 1900	422	114	84	152
taxa described between 1901 and 1950	327	61	40	67
taxa described between 1951 and 1980	34	26	7	32
taxa described between 1981 and 2012	15	18	10	18
Cocoseae	505	90	5	138
Euterpae	56	63	44	125
Geonomateae	101	65	29	138