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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
  • Adenium (1)
  • Aganosma (1)
  • Allamanda (2)
  • Alstonia (3)
  • Alyxia (5)
  • Amsonia (61)
  • Anodendron (1)
  • Apocynum (43)
  • Araujia (1)
  • Asclepias (269)
  • Aspidosperma (1)
  • Calotropis (5)
  • Cameraria (1)
  • Carissa (1)
  • Catharanthus (5)
  • Cerbera (3)
  • Cryptostegia (2)
  • Cynanchum (19)
  • Ecdysanthera (1)
  • Ervatamia (1)
  • Fernaldia (1)
  • Fischeria (2)
  • Forsteronia (3)
  • Funastrum (11)
  • Gomphocarpus (3)
  • Gonolobus (4)
  • Gymnema (1)
  • Haplophyton (11)
  • Hoya (1)
  • Ichnocarpus (1)
  • Jasminanthes (1)
  • Kibatalia (1)
  • Kopsia (2)
  • Macrosiphonia (23)
  • Mandevilla (11)
  • Marsdenia (5)
  • Matelea (41)
  • Melodinus (1)
  • Metastelma (4)
  • Mitostigma (1)
  • Nerium (8)
  • Ochrosia (1)
  • Parameria (1)
  • Parsonsia (3)
  • Pentalinon (1)
  • Periploca (1)
  • Plumeria (9)
  • Prestonia (1)
  • Rauvolfia (1)
  • Rhabdadenia (1)
  • Sarcostemma (51)
  • Secamone (1)
  • Stemmadenia (3)
  • Tabernaemontana (3)
  • Telosiphonia (1)
  • Thevetia (6)
  • Thyrsanthella (1)
  • Tonduzia (1)
  • Trachelospermum (9)
  • Tylophora (5)
  • Urceola (1)
  • Vallesia (4)
  • Vinca (3)
  • Vincetoxicum (3)
  • Wrightia (1)