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### Author
Guerke, Robert Louis August Maximilian (Max) (1854-1911), German botanist at Berlin.
**Abbreviated name**: *Guerke* \[standard form in IPNI: *Gürke*\]
#### Herbarium and types
Unknown, some material at [[Collection K|K]]. – [[Collection B|B]] had a set of 154 drawings of Cactaceae by Mrs Toni Gürke.
*Ref*.: IH 2: 244.
#### Bibliography and biography
AG 6(2): 922; Barnhart 2: 96; BM 2: 749, 6: 417; CSP 15: 512; DTS 1: 99, 6(4): 143-144; MW p. 147; NI.
- Urban, Fl. bras. 1(1): 175-176. 1906.
- Vaupel, Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 21: 49, 65-67. 1911.
- Loesener, Verh. bot. Ver. Brandenburg 53: 29-41. 1911 (1912) (bibl., portr.)
- Steam, J. Bot. 77: 89-91. 1939.
- Langman, Lit. Fl. Pl. Mexico 339. 1964.
- Anon., Kakt. and Succ. 23: 322. 1972 (portr. only).
#### Composite works
- (1) EP, *Die natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien* ed. 1:
(a) *Melianthaceae*: III. 5: 374-383. Jan 1895.
(b) *Ebenaceae*: IV. 1: 153-165. Dec 1891; Suppl., Nachtr. II-IV. 1: 280-281. Oct 1897.
(c) *Symplocaceae*: IV. 1: 165-172. Dec 1891; Suppl. Nachtr. II-IV. 1: 281. Oct 1897.
(d) *Styracaceae*: IV. 1: 172-180. Dec 1891; Suppl., Nachtr. II-IV. 1: 281. Oct 1897.
(e) *Borraginaceae*: IV. 3A: 71-96. Jun 1893; 97-128. 10 Jul 1894; 129-131. 26 Feb 1895; 377. Feb 1897; Suppl., Nachtr. (with H. Harms) II-IV. 1: 289-290. Nov 1897; II-IV. 2: 63-64. 8 Oct 1900.
- (2) Martius, *Flora brasiliensis*: *Malvaceae* II (*Pavoniae, Hibiscae*): 12(3): 456-585, *pl. 79-114*. 1892 (fasc. 111: 15 Apr 1892).
- (3) Engler, *Die Pflanzenwelt Ostafrikas*, Teil C: *Hydrocharitaceae, Sansevieria, Meliaceae, Polygalaceae, Melianthaceae, Malvaceae, Ebenaceae, Borraginaceae, Verbenaceae, Labiatae*.
- (4) Schumann, Gürke and Vaupel, *Blühende Kakteen*, Neudamm 1900-1921, see Gürke.
- (5) Richter, *Plantae europaeae*, tom. 2, emended and edited by Guerke, fasc. 1, p. 1-160. 1897, fasc. 2: 161-320. 1899, fasc. 3: 321-480. 1903. See under Richter.
#### Note
Guerke treated many special groups for several of the composite volumes describing the flora of the German territories in Africa. For full details see Loesener 1911.