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
  • Andrographis (1)
  • Anisacanthus (19)
  • Aphelandra (5)
  • Asystasia (7)
  • Asystasiella (1)
  • Avicennia (9)
  • Barleria (5)
  • Beloperone (7)
  • Berginia (1)
  • Blechum (6)
  • Carlowrightia (26)
  • Codonacanthus (1)
  • Dicliptera (18)
  • Dyschoriste (32)
  • Elytraria (9)
  • Filetia (2)
  • Hemigraphis (1)
  • Henrya (2)
  • Hygrophila (5)
  • Hypoestes (2)
  • Jacobinia (6)
  • Justicia (60)
  • Lepidagathis (2)
  • Odontonema (3)
  • Ophiorrhiziphyllon (1)
  • Pachystachys (1)
  • Peristrophe (2)
  • Pseuderanthemum (2)
  • Rostellularia (2)
  • Ruellia (79)
  • Sanchezia (2)
  • Siphonoglossa (7)
  • Staurogyne (5)
  • Stenandrium (35)
  • Strobilanthes (7)
  • Tetramerium (14)
  • Thunbergia (11)
  • Xerothamnella (1)