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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
  • Acanthocalycium (1)
  • Ariocarpus (3)
  • Astrophytum (1)
  • Carnegiea (1)
  • Cephalocereus (1)
  • Cereus (6)
  • Cleistocactus (1)
  • Coryphantha (37)
  • Cylindropuntia (138)
  • Echinocactus (22)
  • Echinocereus (152)
  • Echinomastus (24)
  • Echinopsis (1)
  • Epiphyllum (1)
  • Epithelantha (14)
  • Escobaria (72)
  • Ferocactus (20)
  • Grusonia (14)
  • Harrisia (1)
  • Hylocereus (2)
  • Lemaireocereus (1)
  • Lophocereus (1)
  • Lophophora (1)
  • Mammillaria (62)
  • Melocactus (1)
  • Myrtillocactus (1)
  • Neoevansia (1)
  • Neolloydia (4)
  • Nopalea (1)
  • Opuntia (205)
  • Oreocereus (2)
  • Pachycereus (4)
  • Pediocactus (4)
  • Peniocereus (2)
  • Pereskia (1)
  • Pereskiopsis (2)
  • Rathbunia (1)
  • Rhipsalis (6)
  • Sclerocactus (16)
  • Stenocereus (3)
  • Thelocactus (5)
  • Toumeya (1)
  • Trichocereus (3)