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.
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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
  • Araujia (1)
  • Asclepias (298)
  • Calotropis (5)
  • Cryptostegia (2)
  • Cynanchum (22)
  • Dischidia (1)
  • Fischeria (2)
  • Funastrum (11)
  • Gomphocarpus (3)
  • Gonolobus (4)
  • Gymnema (1)
  • Hoya (1)
  • Jasminanthes (1)
  • Marsdenia (5)
  • Matelea (45)
  • Metastelma (5)
  • Mitostigma (1)
  • Periploca (1)
  • Sarcostemma (55)
  • Secamone (1)
  • Tylophora (5)
  • Vincetoxicum (3)