> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 844](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33333983) of TL-2 Vol. V > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/10031-1) LSID 10031-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21609538) QID Q21609538 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Starcs, Karlis (1897-1953), Latvian botanist; Mag. rev. nat. Latvian Univ., Riga 1936; botanist at the Bio-entomological station of the Latvian Dept. of Agriculture 1919, soon afterwards (ca. 1922) until 1944 botanist at the Latvian Institute of Plant Protection; displaced 1944, at Weimar 1945; with the UNRRA Univ. at München 1946-1949; in D.P. camps in Bavaria 1945-1950; from 1950-1953 in the United States as gardener in Indianapolis. **Abbreviated name**: *Starcs* \[standard form in IPNI: *Starcs*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection RIG|RIG]], Botanical Garden Latvian Univ. and Baltic Plant Protection Station Riga (in all ca. 100.000 specimens); a Taraxacum collection (3000) from Latvia at [[Collection S|S]]; duplicate collections of fungi: [[Collection B|B]] (extant), [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection BP|BP]], [[Collection BPI|BPI]], [[Collection BUT|BUT]], [[Collection CUP|CUP]], [[Collection E|E]], [[Collection H|H]], [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection KANU|KANU]], [[Collection LD|LD]], [[Collection M|M]] (crypt.), [[Collection MICH|MICH]], [[Collection TRTC|TRTC]], [[Collection UPS|UPS]]. – Duplicates of *Taraxacum* at [[Collection L|L]], lichens in herb. H. Sandstede q.v. *Exsiccatae* (/) *Betulaceae exsiccatae*, fasc, i, nos. 1-25. 1931. Riga. (2) *Diseases of Latvian cultivated plants*, with A. Kirulis, ed. M. Eglitis, fasc. 1-3, 1937-1944. – Starcs contributed to J. Smarods, *Fungi latvici exsiccati*, Riga; V. Litschauer, *Fungi selecti exsiccati europaei*, 1931-1935; F. Petrak, *Fungi exsiccati*; *Cryptogamae exsiccatae* (Mus. Sci. nat. Vindob.), Wien; Zillig, *Ustilagineen Europas*; E. Eichhorn, *Uredineen Europas*. – Starcs material from Latvia (Lettland) was also distributed through the *Berliner botanische Tauschverein*. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 317, 318 (Starzs); Biol.-Dokum. 17: 8866; Hirsch p. 285; MW p. 470; Tucker 3: 293. #### Biofile - Anon., Österr. bot. Z. 80: 80. 1931 (on *Betulaceae exs.*). - Hertel, H., Mitt. Bot. München 16: 438-439. 1980 (crypt. coll. 1945-1950 in Bavaria). - Mühlenbach, V., Curriculum vitae and bibliography of K.S., mss. TL-2/files, submitted 1979 (b. 18 Mai 1897, d. 2 Feb 1953). #### Note We are grateful to Dr. Viktor Mühlenbach, St. Louis, for the extensive information on Starcs on which this entry is based. We have a list of 35 publications up to 1944; during the difficult years 1944-1953 Starcs added to his herbarium in Germany and the United States, but we have no record of publications of that period. Starcs' name is sometimes also spelled Starzs. ### Publications ##### n.12.818. Latvijas pavasarangu noteicejs **Title** *Latvijas pavasarangu noteicejs*... Cesis un Riga (O. Jepes apgadiba \[2-7:... izdevnieciba\]), 1924-1927, 7 parts. **Abbreviated title**: *Latv. pavasar. not.* **Notes** *Publ*.: A spring flora of Latvia, in 7 parts. *Copies*: HH, USDA. – Published in the series Populari-zinatniski raksti, iv(1-7). *1*: 1924, p. \[i-ii\], \[1\]-80. *2*: 1925, p. \[i-ii\], 81-160. *3*: 1925 (Nat. Nov. Mar 1926), p. \[1\]-ii, 161-240. *4*: 1926 (Nat. Nov. Jun 1927), p. \[i-ii\], 241-320. *5*: 1927, p. \[i-ii\], 321-400. *6*: 1927, p. \[i-ii\], 401-496. *7*: 1927 (preface 12 Mai 1927; Nat. Nov. Jul 1927), p. \[i\*-ix\*\], \[i\]-xcv, \[xcvii\]. ##### n.12.819. Koku un krumu notieicejs **Title** *Koku un krumu notieicejs*... Riga (Mezu Departamenta Izdevums) 1925. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Koku krümu not.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1925 (p. vi: 14 Sep 1925), p. \[i\]-lxx, \[lxxi\], \[1\]-444. *Copies*: HH, USDA. – A handbook of Latvian trees and shrubs. ##### n.12.820. Über die Verbreitung **Title** *Über die Verbreitung* und Formenkreise *der Gymnospermen und Monocotyledonen Lettlands* (Par Latvijas Kallsekju un vlendiglapaino augu izplatibu un formam. Acta Horti botanici Universitatis latviensis v, 1930. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 15 Mai 1931 (date on cover reprint; author sent a copy to Linkola on 4 Jun 1931 ; Nat. Nov. Sep 1932), cover-t.p., p. \[9\]-59, \[60\]. *Copy*: H. – Reprinted and to be cited from Act. Hort. bot. Univ. Latv. 5: 9-60. 1930 (ed. 15 Mai 1931). *Dicotyledones*: 1934-1935, ib. 9/10: 101-142. 1935... "*Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Verbreitung* und Formenkreise *der Dicotyledonen Lettlands* i. Salicaceae-Papaveraceae (n.v.).