Table 3.

The number (n) of types for species or infraspecific taxa originating from West African countries and West Africa. Most of the names are accepted as basionym or as homotypic synonym

	n types	n types names accepted
Benin	39	37
Burkina Faso	12	12
Gambia	2	2
Ghana	216	189
Guinea	111	106
Guinea-Bissau	9	8
Ivory Coast	266	247
Liberia	32	30
Mali	6	6
Niger	5	5
Nigeria	88	85
Senegal	21	19
Sierra Leone	547	491
Togo	29	26
total	1383	1263
West Africaa	1382	1262

^aTotal minus one because of one type being a syntype originating from two countries