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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
  • Apodanthera (40)
  • Brandegea (9)
  • Cayaponia (7)
  • Cionosicyos (1)
  • Citrullus (5)
  • Coccinia (1)
  • Cucumis (6)
  • Cucurbita (63)
  • Cucurbitella (1)
  • Cyclanthera (9)
  • Doyerea (1)
  • Echinocystis (2)
  • Echinopepon (13)
  • Elaterium (1)
  • Gymnopetalum (1)
  • Gynostemma (1)
  • Ibervillea (37)
  • Lagenaria (3)
  • Marah (24)
  • Melothria (14)
  • Momordica (12)
  • Mukia (1)
  • Polyclathra (1)
  • Schizocarpum (1)
  • Sechium (3)
  • Sicyos (19)
  • Sicyosperma (4)
  • Thladiantha (1)
  • Trichosanthes (2)
  • Tumamoca (2)
  • Vaseyanthus (2)
  • Zehneria (1)