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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
  • Acrotriche (2)
  • Andromeda (3)
  • Arbutus (18)
  • Arctostaphylos (54)
  • Astroloma (4)
  • Bruckenthalia (1)
  • Calluna (9)
  • Cassiope (2)
  • Cavendishia (1)
  • Ceratiola (3)
  • Chamaedaphne (2)
  • Chimaphila (1)
  • Comarostaphylis (2)
  • Corema (1)
  • Empetrum (4)
  • Enkianthus (2)
  • Epacris (1)
  • Epigaea (1)
  • Erica (4)
  • Eubotrys (1)
  • Gaultheria (10)
  • Gaylussacia (8)
  • Kalmia (15)
  • Ledum (3)
  • Leiophyllum (2)
  • Leucopogon (6)
  • Leucothoe (11)
  • Lyonia (23)
  • Menziesia (2)
  • Moneses (2)
  • Monotropa (29)
  • Monotropsis (1)
  • Ornithostaphylos (3)
  • Orthilia (7)
  • Oxydendrum (10)
  • Phyllodoce (1)
  • Pieris (6)
  • Pterospora (9)
  • Pyrola (19)
  • Ramischia (2)
  • Rhododendron (73)
  • Sarcodes (5)
  • Sprengelia (1)
  • Styphelia (1)
  • Vaccinium (112)
  • Xylococcus (5)