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Collection Profile for:
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.

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University of Texas at El Paso
Biodiversity Collections Herbarium
500 West University Avenue
El Paso, TX   79968
U.S.A.
1] 915/ 747-5871
http://www.utep.edu/leb/default.htm

Collection Statistics

  • 83,736 specimen records
  • 65,020 (78%) georeferenced
  • 49,462 (59%) with media (100,985 total media)
  • 127 GenBank genetic references
  • 80,616 (96%) identified to species
  • 972 families
  • 4,447 genera
  • 18,959 species
  • 20,095 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)

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Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 22 January 2025
Digital Metadata: EML File
IPT / DwC-A Source: Harvest from UTEP IPT instance; utep herbarium
Usage Rights:
Rights Holder: University of Texas at El Paso
Access Rights: CC BY
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Acanthochiton (14)
  • Achyranthes (7)
  • Acnida (4)
  • Aerva (1)
  • Allenrolfea (14)
  • Alternanthera (54)
  • Amaranthus (244)
  • Arthrocnemum (1)
  • Atriplex (216)
  • Bassia (3)
  • Beta (2)
  • Brayulinea (1)
  • Celosia (6)
  • Chamissoa (1)
  • Chenopodium (173)
  • Corispermum (10)
  • Cyathula (2)
  • Cycloloma (6)
  • Dicraurus (1)
  • Dysphania (34)
  • Eremophea (1)
  • Froelichia (57)
  • Gomphrena (41)
  • Grayia (8)
  • Guilleminea (22)
  • Halosarcia (6)
  • Hemichroa (1)
  • Iresine (30)
  • Kochia (3)
  • Krascheninnikovia (42)
  • Monolepis (16)
  • Nitrophila (3)
  • Osteocarpum (1)
  • Pfaffia (2)
  • Philoxerus (1)
  • Pleuropetalum (1)
  • Ptilotus (24)
  • Rhagodia (1)
  • Salicornia (25)
  • Salsola (65)
  • Scleroblitum (2)
  • Sclerolaena (1)
  • Sclerostegia (1)
  • Suaeda (41)
  • Suckleya (3)
  • Tidestromia (67)
  • Trichinium (2)