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
  • Acoelorrhaphe (1)
  • Acrocomia (1)
  • Archontophoenix (1)
  • Areca (1)
  • Arenga (1)
  • Bactris (2)
  • Calamus (1)
  • Calyptrogyne (2)
  • Caryota (4)
  • Chamaedorea (3)
  • Coccothrinax (8)
  • Cocos (1)
  • Colpothrinax (1)
  • Cryosophila (1)
  • Cyrtostachys (2)
  • Daemonorops (1)
  • Desmonchus (1)
  • Elaeis (1)
  • Erythea (1)
  • Euterpe (2)
  • Geonoma (1)
  • Iguanura (1)
  • Licuala (2)
  • Livistona (1)
  • Metroxylon (1)
  • Oncosperma (2)
  • Phoenix (2)
  • Pholidocarpus (1)
  • Pinanga (2)
  • Ptychosperma (1)
  • Rhopaloblaste (1)
  • Roystonea (1)
  • Sabal (6)
  • Thrinax (1)