Introduction of the new program " CheckName" with applications in integration and increased precision and certitude of floristic inventories

Precision and certitude of plant scientific names in floristic inventories are requisites for their validity and applicability in software systems to reach a higher level in floristics knowledge. This paper introduces and makes available an open source software entitled “CheckName”. CheckName software comprises a list of scientific names for plants of Iran، which is obtained via integration and correction of published floristic lists in Iran. The list is held in the checname software and helps to integrate unpublished floristic inventories or for making new floristic lists. In making new floristic lists، scientific names are chosen from a list and the addition of authorities and protologue، or reporting the sorted lists would be performed by the software. In correcting an inventory of plant names، the program will correct the list for typing issues and parses each line of the list into genus and species and checks for correctness of their spelling. If a scientific name is not verified، the correct spelling might be suggested. Other applications of this software includes the online connection to IPNI، TROPICOS، NCBI، PubMed databases to receive relevant information for each name.