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
Abutilon (119 ) Alcea (1 ) Allowissadula (3 ) Althaea (5 ) Alyogyne (1 ) Anoda (32 ) Ayenia (45 ) Bastardia (3 ) Bastardiastrum (3 ) Bastardiopsis (1 ) Belotia (1 ) Berrya (1 ) Bogenhardia (2 ) Brachychiton (3 ) Byttneria (1 ) Callirhoe (33 ) Ceiba (4 ) Cienfuegosia (1 ) Cola (1 ) Colona (2 ) Columbia (1 ) Commersonia (6 ) Corchorus (12 ) Cristaria (1 ) Eremalche (3 ) Firmiana (2 ) Fremontodendron (8 ) Gilesia (1 ) Gossypium (20 ) Grewia (5 ) Guazuma (5 ) Hampea (1 ) Helicteres (1 ) Heliocarpus (1 ) Herissantia (20 ) Heritiera (1 ) Hermannia (5 ) Hibiscus (114 ) Hochreutinera (1 ) Horsfordia (5 ) Howittia (1 ) Iliamna (1 ) Keraudrenia (1 ) Kosteletzkya (5 ) Krapovickasia (1 ) Lagunaria (2 ) Lasiopetalum (6 ) Lavatera (8 ) Lawrencia (6 ) Leptonychia (1 ) Luehea (4 ) Malachra (5 ) Malacothamnus (9 ) Malva (44 ) Malvastrum (13 ) Malvaviscus (16 ) Malvella (33 ) Melhania (3 ) Melochia (40 ) Microcos (1 ) Modiola (11 ) Modiolastrum (1 ) Napaea (1 ) Pavonia (10 ) Pentace (1 ) Pterygota (1 ) Quararibea (1 ) Radyera (1 ) Rhynchosida (26 ) Rulingia (1 ) Scaphium (1 ) Sida (155 ) Sidalcea (31 ) Sidastrum (1 ) Sphaeralcea (329 ) Sterculia (5 ) Tarasa (4 ) Tartagalia (1 ) Thespesia (6 ) Thomasia (2 ) Tilia (18 ) Trichospermum (1 ) Triumfetta (13 ) Urena (7 ) Waltheria (21 ) Wissadula (4 )
