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
  • Aloina (1)
  • Anoectangium (3)
  • Astomum (1)
  • Barbula (5)
  • Bryoerythrophyllum (5)
  • Crossidium (11)
  • Crumia (1)
  • Desmatodon (1)
  • Didymodon (36)
  • Geheebia (1)
  • Gymnostomum (5)
  • Husnotiella (2)
  • Hydrogonium (1)
  • Hymenostylium (6)
  • Hyophila (2)
  • Leptodontium (3)
  • Molendoa (1)
  • Pleurochaete (13)
  • Pottia (8)
  • Pseudocrossidium (19)
  • Pseudosymblepharis (1)
  • Pterygoneurum (10)
  • Rhexophyllum (1)
  • Syntrichia (147)
  • Timmiella (1)
  • Tortella (10)
  • Tortula (24)
  • Trichostomum (5)
  • Tuerckheimia (1)
  • Weissia (73)