> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 190](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33066530) of TL-2 Vol. VII > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/11559-1) LSID 11559-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21392078) QID Q21392078 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Wercklé, Karl (1860-1924), French (Lorraine)-born botanist and horticulturist of Alsatian descent and German culture; went to the United States; horticulturist with J.L. Childs, Long Island; travelled in Costa Rica 1897-1898; with Siebrecht and Wadley in New York and New Rochelle 1898-1902; in Costa Rica working mainly as a private horticulturist 1902-1924. **Abbreviated name**: *Wercklé* \[standard form in IPNI: *Wercklé*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection CR|CR]] (complete?); further material in [[Collection B|B]] (mainly destr.), [[Collection C|C]], [[Collection P|P]], [[Collection STU|STU]], [[Collection US|US]] (418). *Letters* at [[Collection G|G]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 477 (d. 24 Nov 1924); BJI 2: 189; BM 5: 2293; LS suppl. 29756; Tucker 1: 740; Urban-Berl. p. 409. #### Biofile - Anon., Index Amer. bot. lit. 1886-1966. 4: 497-498. 1969. - Berger, A., Z. Sukkulentenk. 2: 200-202. 1926 (obit.). - Gómez, P., L.D., Brenesia 12-13: 25-79. 1977 (on W. and Christ), 14-15: 361-393. 1978 (biogr., work in Costa Rica; main treatment, bibl.; portr. b. 18 Jul 1860). - Standley, P.C., Science ser. 2. 63. 221-223. 1926 (biogr. sketch). #### Handwriting Brenesia 14-15: 368, 370-371. 1978. #### Eponymy *Wercklea* Pittier et Standley (1916); *Werckleocereus* N.L. Britton et J.N. Rose (1909). ### Publications ##### n.17.164. La subregion fitogeográfica costarricense **Title** *La subregion fitogeográfica costarricense*... San José, Costa Rica (Tipografia Nacional) 1909. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Subreg. fitogeogr. costarr.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1909, p. \[1\]-55. *Copies*: BR, G, HH, M, MICH, NY, PH, US.