Sometimes the full genus, species, and variety is not known for a specimen. In these cases, you can place a checkmark in the “Uncertain taxonomy” box to indicate this. The automatic botanical spell-checker does this for you if you mistype a name. If you are certain you’ve spelled the name correctly and it just isn’t in the checklist, you can remove the checkmark.

This name is not in the checklist.

In some cases you may want to place “<incertae genus>”, “<incertae species>”, “<incertae varietas>”, “<incertae familia>” in the fields that you are uncertain about. This serves as a reminder to do more research.