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
Alliaria (10 ) Alyssum (13 ) Arabidella (8 ) Arabidopsis (18 ) Arabis (69 ) Armoracia (3 ) Athysanus (1 ) Barbarea (18 ) Berteroa (3 ) Blennodia (1 ) Boechera (18 ) Brassica (48 ) Bunias (1 ) Cakile (9 ) Camelina (10 ) Capsella (42 ) Cardamine (72 ) Cardaminopsis (2 ) Cardaria (13 ) Carinavalva (1 ) Carrichtera (2 ) Caulanthus (10 ) Chamaeplium (1 ) Chorispora (16 ) Coronopus (8 ) Dentaria (7 ) Descurainia (168 ) Dimorphocarpa (78 ) Diplotaxis (14 ) Dithyrea (5 ) Draba (126 ) Dryopetalon (22 ) Erophila (5 ) Eruca (8 ) Erysimum (100 ) Guillenia (1 ) Halimolobos (3 ) Heliophila (1 ) Hesperis (8 ) Hirschfeldia (2 ) Hutchinsia (2 ) Idahoa (1 ) Iodanthus (1 ) Irenepharsus (1 ) Isatis (1 ) Leavenworthia (2 ) Lepidium (347 ) Lesquerella (222 ) Lobularia (9 ) Lunaria (2 ) Lyrocarpa (5 ) Mancoa (2 ) Matthiola (6 ) Menkea (1 ) Myagrum (1 ) Nasturtium (3 ) Nerisyrenia (102 ) Noccaea (1 ) Peltaria (1 ) Pennellia (22 ) Phlegmatospermum (2 ) Phoenicaulis (1 ) Physaria (30 ) Raphanus (22 ) Rapistrum (3 ) Rorippa (58 ) Schoenocrambe (53 ) Selenia (8 ) Sibara (7 ) Sinapis (3 ) Sisymbrium (113 ) Smelowskia (3 ) Stanleya (11 ) Stenopetalum (2 ) Streptanthella (4 ) Streptanthus (132 ) Synthlipsis (1 ) Teesdalia (1 ) Thelypodiopsis (15 ) Thelypodium (36 ) Thlaspi (57 ) Thysanocarpus (28 ) Tropidocarpum (7 )
