Collection Profile for: 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.
Address:
University of Texas at El Paso
Biodiversity Collections Herbarium
500 West University Avenue
El Paso, TX 79968
U.S.A.
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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.)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management:
Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update:
22 January 2025
Usage Rights:
Rights Holder:
University of Texas at El Paso
Access Rights: CC BY
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
Aegiphila (2 ) Agastache (62 ) Ajuga (12 ) Asterohyptis (5 ) Ballota (3 ) Becium (1 ) Betonica (2 ) Blephilia (5 ) Brazoria (16 ) Calamintha (2 ) Callicarpa (23 ) Caryopteris (1 ) Cedronella (1 ) Clerodendrum (19 ) Clinopodium (16 ) Coleus (2 ) Collinsonia (6 ) Congea (1 ) Conradina (6 ) Cornutia (1 ) Cunila (4 ) Dicerandra (2 ) Dicrastylis (4 ) Dracocephalum (10 ) Epimeredi (1 ) Galeobdolon (1 ) Galeopsis (17 ) Glechoma (8 ) Glecoma (1 ) Gmelina (1 ) Hedeoma (162 ) Hyptis (49 ) Lamium (71 ) Lavandula (2 ) Leonotis (5 ) Leonurus (2 ) Lepechinia (4 ) Lycopus (20 ) Marrubium (42 ) Melissa (4 ) Mentha (49 ) Mesona (1 ) Micromeria (1 ) Moluccella (1 ) Monarda (120 ) Monardella (33 ) Nepeta (4 ) Newcastelia (1 ) Ocimum (9 ) Origanum (4 ) Orthosiphon (1 ) Paraphlomis (1 ) Perilla (10 ) Perovskia (1 ) Phlomis (3 ) Physostegia (28 ) Piloblephis (1 ) Pityrodia (2 ) Plectranthus (4 ) Pogogyne (5 ) Poliomintha (26 ) Premna (5 ) Prostanthera (7 ) Prunella (36 ) Pycnanthemum (40 ) Rabdosia (1 ) Rhododon (3 ) Rosmarinus (12 ) Salazaria (16 ) Salvia (402 ) Satureja (9 ) Scutellaria (93 ) Sideritis (2 ) Siphonanthus (1 ) Solenostemon (2 ) Spartothamnella (1 ) Stachys (40 ) Suzukia (1 ) Synandra (1 ) Teijsmanniodendron (1 ) Tetraclea (46 ) Teucrium (61 ) Thymus (9 ) Trichostema (42 ) Vitex (23 ) Volkameria (2 ) Warnockia (1 ) Westringia (5 )
