Collection Profile for: 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.
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
65,020 (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.)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management:
Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update:
22 January 2025
Usage Rights:
Rights Holder:
University of Texas at El Paso
Access Rights: CC BY
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
Aegopodium (3 ) Aethusa (2 ) Aletes (18 ) Ammi (1 ) Ammoselinum (13 ) Angelica (9 ) Anthriscus (3 ) Apiastrum (2 ) Apium (15 ) Azorella (3 ) Berula (8 ) Bifora (3 ) Bowlesia (8 ) Bupleurum (3 ) Carum (4 ) Caucalis (2 ) Centella (5 ) Chaerophyllum (22 ) Changium (1 ) Chlaenosciadium (1 ) Ciclospermum (4 ) Cicuta (17 ) Cnidium (1 ) Conioselinum (5 ) Conium (18 ) Coriandrum (5 ) Crithmum (2 ) Cryptotaenia (3 ) Cymopterus (46 ) Cynosciadium (4 ) Daucosma (2 ) Daucus (66 ) Deanea (1 ) Donnellsmithia (3 ) Enantiophylla (1 ) Erigenia (1 ) Eryngium (41 ) Eurytaenia (2 ) Falcaria (2 ) Foeniculum (7 ) Gymnophyton (1 ) Hacquetia (1 ) Harbouria (1 ) Heracleum (10 ) Ligusticum (14 ) Lilaeopsis (3 ) Limnosciadium (14 ) Lomatium (64 ) Mulinum (1 ) Musineon (9 ) Oenanthe (3 ) Opopanax (1 ) Oreomyrrhis (1 ) Oreoxis (2 ) Osmorhiza (34 ) Oxypolis (10 ) Pastinaca (7 ) Perideridia (6 ) Petroselinum (1 ) Peucedanum (4 ) Pimpinella (5 ) Platysace (2 ) Podistera (1 ) Polytaenia (5 ) Pseudocymopterus (24 ) Ptilimnium (20 ) Sanicula (41 ) Scandix (6 ) Shoshonea (1 ) Sium (4 ) Spermolepis (24 ) Sphenosciadium (2 ) Taenidia (4 ) Tauschia (6 ) Thaspium (6 ) Tordylium (1 ) Torilis (27 ) Trepocarpus (8 ) Xanthosia (2 ) Yabea (2 ) Zizia (4 )
