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
IPT / DwC-A Source:
Digital Metadata: EML File
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.
1] 915/ 747-5871
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
  • Abutilon (119)
  • Alcea (1)
  • Allowissadula (3)
  • Althaea (5)
  • Alyogyne (1)
  • Anoda (33)
  • Bastardia (3)
  • Bastardiastrum (3)
  • Bastardiopsis (1)
  • Bogenhardia (2)
  • Callirhoe (33)
  • Cienfuegosia (1)
  • Cola (1)
  • Cristaria (1)
  • Eremalche (3)
  • Fremontodendron (7)
  • Gossypium (23)
  • Hampea (1)
  • Herissantia (20)
  • Hermannia (2)
  • Hibiscus (115)
  • Hochreutinera (1)
  • Horsfordia (5)
  • Howittia (1)
  • Iliamna (1)
  • Kosteletzkya (5)
  • Krapovickasia (1)
  • Lagunaria (2)
  • Lavatera (8)
  • Lawrencia (6)
  • Malachra (5)
  • Malacothamnus (9)
  • Malva (44)
  • Malvastrum (13)
  • Malvaviscus (16)
  • Malvella (33)
  • Modiola (11)
  • Modiolastrum (1)
  • Napaea (1)
  • Pavonia (10)
  • Radyera (1)
  • Rhynchosida (26)
  • Sida (154)
  • Sidalcea (32)
  • Sidastrum (1)
  • Sphaeralcea (329)
  • Tarasa (4)
  • Thespesia (6)
  • Triumfetta (7)
  • Urena (7)
  • Waltheria (13)
  • Wissadula (4)