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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
  • Acanthocarpus (1)
  • Agave (117)
  • Androstephium (3)
  • Anthericum (25)
  • Aphyllanthes (1)
  • Arthropodium (2)
  • Asparagus (20)
  • Beaucarnea (1)
  • Behnia (1)
  • Behria (1)
  • Bloomeria (3)
  • Brodiaea (9)
  • Camassia (5)
  • Chamaexeros (1)
  • Chlorogalum (3)
  • Convallaria (4)
  • Dasylirion (42)
  • Dichelostemma (41)
  • Dichopogon (3)
  • Disporopsis (1)
  • Dracaena (4)
  • Echeandia (7)
  • Eriospermum (1)
  • Furcraea (2)
  • Hemiphylacus (1)
  • Hesperaloe (4)
  • Hesperocallis (2)
  • Liriope (4)
  • Lomandra (19)
  • Maianthemum (65)
  • Manfreda (5)
  • Milla (9)
  • Muscari (3)
  • Nolina (46)
  • Ophiopogon (1)
  • Ornithogalum (3)
  • Polianthes (4)
  • Polygonatum (15)
  • Ruscus (2)
  • Sansevieria (1)
  • Schoenolirion (2)
  • Scilla (1)
  • Smilacina (3)
  • Sowerbaea (1)
  • Thysanotus (1)
  • Triteleia (7)
  • Triteleiopsis (1)
  • Urginea (1)
  • Xerolirion (1)
  • Yucca (119)