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
  • Allocarya (2)
  • Amsinckia (64)
  • Anchusa (2)
  • Antiphytum (4)
  • Asperugo (1)
  • Borago (2)
  • Bothriospermum (2)
  • Bourreria (9)
  • Buglossoides (14)
  • Carmona (2)
  • Cerinthe (1)
  • Cordia (41)
  • Cryptantha (471)
  • Cynoglossum (13)
  • Echium (10)
  • Ehretia (1)
  • Eritrichium (1)
  • Hackelia (42)
  • Halgania (2)
  • Harpagonella (1)
  • Heliotropium (196)
  • Ixorhea (1)
  • Lappula (110)
  • Lithospermum (129)
  • Lycopsis (1)
  • Macromeria (6)
  • Mertensia (59)
  • Myosotis (46)
  • Nama (2)
  • Nomosa (1)
  • Omphalodes (4)
  • Omphalolappula (1)
  • Onosmodium (10)
  • Oreocarya (4)
  • Pectocarya (62)
  • Pentaglottis (1)
  • Plagiobothrys (70)
  • Pteleocarpa (1)
  • Pulmonaria (5)
  • Saccellium (1)
  • Symphytum (8)
  • Thyrocarpus (1)
  • Tiquilia (158)
  • Tournefortia (22)
  • Trichodesma (1)
  • Trigonotis (3)
  • Turricula (2)
  • Wigandia (1)