Table 5.

Comparison of error rates in the studied sources

Type of study	Literature	Voucher specimens
Number of publications/herbariums	45	4
No. of use-reports/specimens	1983	459
No. of errors detected	46	46
Average rate of mistakes per publication/source	6.2	9.2
Percentage of errors detected	2.3	10.0
Types of errors:	Number of taxa (Percentage given in parentheses)
wrong genus	22 (48%)	11 (24%)
wrong species within the same genus	7 (15%)	29 (63%)
more species from the same genus are actually used in the area	16 (35%)	-
the identification is too detailed (the voucher specimen is in bad condition - it should have been identified only to the genus level)	-	5 (11%)