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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
  • Acacia (308)
  • Acmispon (1)
  • Adenanthera (1)
  • Adenocarpus (1)
  • Adesmia (1)
  • Aeschynomene (11)
  • Albizia (4)
  • Alhagi (4)
  • Amicia (2)
  • Amorpha (5)
  • Amphicarpa (2)
  • Amphicarpaea (1)
  • Anadenanthera (2)
  • Andira (3)
  • Anthyllis (6)
  • Apios (6)
  • Arachis (17)
  • Astragalus (278)
  • Baptisia (22)
  • Bauhinia (13)
  • Brongniartia (10)
  • Caesalpinia (61)
  • Calliandra (43)
  • Calopogonium (2)
  • Campylotropis (1)
  • Canavalia (12)
  • Caragana (2)
  • Cassia (3)
  • Centrosema (8)
  • Ceratonia (1)
  • Cercidium (12)
  • Cercis (21)
  • Chamaecrista (47)
  • Chloroleucon (1)
  • Cladrastis (1)
  • Clitoria (3)
  • Cologania (29)
  • Conzattia (2)
  • Copaifera (1)
  • Coursetia (16)
  • Crotalaria (48)
  • Cullen (5)
  • Cynometra (1)
  • Cytisus (8)
  • Dalbergia (6)
  • Dalea (352)
  • Daubentonia (3)
  • Daviesia (7)
  • Delonix (3)
  • Dendrolobium (4)
  • Derris (2)
  • Desmanthus (42)
  • Desmodium (116)
  • Dillwynia (3)
  • Diphysa (4)
  • Dumasia (1)
  • Entada (1)
  • Enterolobium (1)
  • Errazurizia (6)
  • Erythrina (17)
  • Eysenhardtia (24)
  • Galactia (30)
  • Gastrolobium (2)
  • Genista (2)
  • Geoffroea (1)
  • Gigasiphon (1)
  • Gleditsia (1)
  • Gliricidia (4)
  • Glottidium (3)
  • Glycine (1)
  • Glycyrrhiza (1)
  • Gompholobium (1)
  • Haematoxylon (3)
  • Hardenbergia (1)
  • Harpalyce (1)
  • Hedysarum (1)
  • Hippocrepis (2)
  • Hoffmannseggia (89)
  • Hoita (1)
  • Holocalyx (1)
  • Hymenaea (1)
  • Indigofera (37)
  • Inga (3)
  • Jacksonia (2)
  • Koompassia (1)
  • Kummerowia (6)
  • Laburnum (1)
  • Lathyrus (61)
  • Lespedeza (39)
  • Lessertia (1)
  • Leucaena (12)
  • Lonchocarpus (4)
  • Lotus (191)
  • Luetzelburgia (1)
  • Lupinus (223)
  • Lysiloma (1)
  • Lysiphyllum (1)
  • Machaerium (4)
  • Macroptilium (41)
  • Marina (5)
  • Mariosousa (1)
  • Mastersia (1)
  • Medicago (59)
  • Melolobium (1)
  • Millettia (5)
  • Mimosa (115)
  • Mirbelia (1)
  • Mucuna (1)
  • Myrospermum (2)
  • Myroxylon (2)
  • Neorudolphia (4)
  • Neptunia (20)
  • Nissolia (3)
  • Olneya (4)
  • Onobrychis (1)
  • Orbexilum (6)
  • Ormocarpum (1)
  • Ormosia (2)
  • Ornithopus (1)
  • Oxylobium (1)
  • Oxytropis (29)
  • Pachyrhizus (1)
  • Padbruggea (1)
  • Parapiptadenia (2)
  • Parkia (1)
  • Parkinsonia (30)
  • Pediomelum (8)
  • Peltophorum (1)
  • Petalostemon (2)
  • Petalostemum (8)
  • Petalostylis (4)
  • Peteria (12)
  • Phanera (1)
  • Phaseolus (95)
  • Phyllota (2)
  • Pictetia (2)
  • Piscidia (2)
  • Pithecellobium (14)
  • Platylobium (3)
  • Platymiscium (3)
  • Poitea (1)
  • Pongamia (2)
  • Prosopidastrum (1)
  • Prosopis (117)
  • Psoralea (19)
  • Psoralidium (29)
  • Psorothamnus (56)
  • Pterocarpus (4)
  • Pterogyne (1)
  • Pueraria (9)
  • Pultenaea (9)
  • Rhynchosia (61)
  • Robinia (60)
  • Rupertia (2)
  • Saraca (4)
  • Sarcodum (1)
  • Schrankia (14)
  • Scorpiurus (1)
  • Senegalia (1)
  • Senna (229)
  • Sesbania (36)
  • Smithia (1)
  • Sophora (43)
  • Spartium (9)
  • Spatholobus (1)
  • Sphaerolobium (1)
  • Sphaerophysa (13)
  • Strophostyles (21)
  • Stylosanthes (15)
  • Swainsona (19)
  • Tamarindus (4)
  • Templetonia (3)
  • Tephrosia (44)
  • Thermopsis (25)
  • Trifolium (135)
  • Trigonella (1)
  • Uraria (1)
  • Vachellia (4)
  • Vicia (131)
  • Vigna (16)
  • Viminaria (1)
  • Willardia (1)
  • Wisteria (7)
  • Zapoteca (4)
  • Zornia (10)