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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
  • Achyronychia (5)
  • Arenaria (111)
  • Cardionema (2)
  • Cerastium (69)
  • Cucubalus (1)
  • Dianthus (20)
  • Drymaria (36)
  • Eremogone (2)
  • Gypsophila (1)
  • Herniaria (2)
  • Holosteum (3)
  • Lidia (2)
  • Loeflingia (1)
  • Lychnis (17)
  • Minuartia (14)
  • Moehringia (3)
  • Moenchia (1)
  • Myosoton (3)
  • Paronychia (53)
  • Petrorhagia (12)
  • Polycarpon (5)
  • Pseudostellaria (4)
  • Sagina (12)
  • Saponaria (9)
  • Scleranthus (6)
  • Silene (170)
  • Siphonychia (1)
  • Spergula (6)
  • Spergularia (11)
  • Spergulastrum (8)
  • Stellaria (74)
  • Stipulicida (4)
  • Tunica (2)