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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
  • Allocarya (2)
  • Amsinckia (64)
  • Anchusa (2)
  • Antiphytum (4)
  • Asperugo (1)
  • Borago (2)
  • Bothriospermum (2)
  • Bourreria (9)
  • Buglossoides (14)
  • Carmona (2)
  • Cerinthe (1)
  • Cordia (34)
  • Cryptantha (471)
  • Cynoglossum (13)
  • Draperia (1)
  • Echium (10)
  • Ehretia (1)
  • Ellisia (1)
  • Emmenanthe (12)
  • Eriodictyon (16)
  • Eritrichium (1)
  • Eucrypta (59)
  • Galax (1)
  • Hackelia (36)
  • Halgania (2)
  • Harpagonella (1)
  • Heliotropium (182)
  • Hydrophyllum (14)
  • Ixorhea (1)
  • Lappula (109)
  • Lemmonia (1)
  • Lennoa (1)
  • Lithospermum (127)
  • Lycopsis (1)
  • Macromeria (6)
  • Mertensia (59)
  • Myosotis (46)
  • Nama (140)
  • Nemophila (41)
  • Nomosa (1)
  • Omphalodes (4)
  • Omphalolappula (1)
  • Onosmodium (10)
  • Oreocarya (4)
  • Pectocarya (53)
  • Pentaglottis (1)
  • Phacelia (412)
  • Pholisma (3)
  • Pholistoma (27)
  • Plagiobothrys (70)
  • Pulmonaria (5)
  • Saccellium (1)
  • Symphytum (8)
  • Thyrocarpus (1)
  • Tiquilia (158)
  • Tournefortia (17)
  • Tricardia (1)
  • Trichodesma (1)
  • Trigonotis (2)
  • Turricula (2)
  • Umbilicaria (5)
  • Verrucaria (3)
  • Wigandia (1)