University of Texas at El Paso Biodiversity Collections Herbarium (UTEP-Herb)
The Herbarium contains well over 85,000 catalogued plant specimens. Overall geographic content of the Herbarium is approximately as follows: Texas, 24%; New Mexico, 22%; other USA, 32%; Mexico, 7%; other world, 15%. Herbarium materials at UTEP that are of special interest include an extensive representation of the floras of the desert mountain ranges of southern New Mexico and western Texas.
Contacts: Richard Worthington, rworthin@utep.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 9 January 2024
Rights Holder: University of Texas at El Paso
Access Rights: CC BY
Address:
University of Texas at El Paso
Biodiversity Collections Herbarium
500 West University Avenue
El Paso, TX 79968
U.S.A.
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Collection Statistics
83,736 specimen records
65,019 (78%) georeferenced
49,435 (59%) with images (100,945 total images) 127 GenBank genetic references 80,605 (96%) identified to species 697 families 4,447 genera 18,954 species 20,089 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
Acacia (80 ) Adenanthera (1 ) Adenocarpus (1 ) Adesmia (2 ) Aeschynomene (4 ) Albizia (3 ) Alysicarpus (1 ) Anadenanthera (2 ) Arachis (13 ) Astragalus (14 ) Bauhinia (6 ) Brongniartia (10 ) Caesalpinia (7 ) Calliandra (3 ) Campylotropis (1 ) Cassia (1 ) Cercidium (5 ) Cercis (4 ) Chamaecrista (7 ) Chloroleucon (1 ) Cologania (10 ) Conzattia (1 ) Coronilla (1 ) Coursetia (5 ) Crotalaria (10 ) Cullen (5 ) Cynometra (1 ) Cytisus (1 ) Dalbergia (6 ) Dalea (7 ) Daviesia (7 ) Dendrolobium (1 ) Derris (1 ) Desmanthus (4 ) Desmodium (9 ) Dillwynia (1 ) Diphysa (1 ) Dorycnium (3 ) Dumasia (1 ) Entada (1 ) Erythrina (2 ) Flemingia (1 ) Galactia (6 ) Gastrolobium (1 ) Genista (2 ) Gigasiphon (1 ) Haematoxylon (3 ) Hardenbergia (1 ) Harpalyce (1 ) Hippocrepis (3 ) Holocalyx (1 ) Indigofera (7 ) Jacksonia (2 ) Koompassia (1 ) Lathyrus (30 ) Lessertia (1 ) Lonchocarpus (3 ) Luetzelburgia (1 ) Lupinus (11 ) Macroptilium (2 ) Marina (1 ) Mastersia (1 ) Melolobium (1 ) Millettia (7 ) Mimosa (23 ) Mirbelia (1 ) Nissolia (1 ) Onobrychis (1 ) Orbexilum (2 ) Ormocarpum (1 ) Ormosia (2 ) Oxylobium (1 ) Oxytropis (1 ) Pachyrhizus (1 ) Padbruggea (1 ) Parapiptadenia (2 ) Parkia (1 ) Petalostylis (4 ) Phanera (1 ) Phaseolus (18 ) Platylobium (1 ) Platymiscium (2 ) Psoralea (1 ) Pterogyne (1 ) Pueraria (3 ) Pultenaea (7 ) Rhynchosia (2 ) Saraca (3 ) Sarcodum (1 ) Senna (13 ) Sesbania (1 ) Smithia (1 ) Spatholobus (1 ) Swainsona (10 ) Tephrosia (5 ) Thermopsis (1 ) Trifolium (11 ) Zapoteca (3 ) Zornia (3 )