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
Aa (1 ) Anoectochilus (1 ) Arethusa (1 ) Arundina (3 ) Beadlea (1 ) Benzingia (1 ) Bletia (2 ) Bromheadia (1 ) Bulbophyllum (3 ) Calanthe (1 ) Calopogon (4 ) Calypso (7 ) Cischweinfia (1 ) Codonorchis (1 ) Coelogyne (2 ) Corallorhiza (52 ) Cranichis (3 ) Cryptophoranthus (1 ) Cryptostylis (1 ) Cypripedium (10 ) Cyrtochilum (1 ) Dactylorhiza (1 ) Dendrobium (8 ) Dendrochilum (2 ) Dichaea (2 ) Dilomilis (1 ) Encyclia (2 ) Epidendrum (15 ) Epipactis (17 ) Epipogium (1 ) Eria (3 ) Eulophia (1 ) Flickingeria (3 ) Galearis (2 ) Geodorum (1 ) Gongora (1 ) Goodyera (19 ) Govenia (1 ) Grammatophyllum (1 ) Habenaria (26 ) Herminium (1 ) Hexalectris (6 ) Ionopsis (2 ) Isochilus (1 ) Isotria (1 ) Laelia (1 ) Limnorchis (9 ) Liparis (2 ) Listera (7 ) Lockhartia (1 ) Malaxis (44 ) Masdevallia (1 ) Maxillaria (5 ) Microthelys (1 ) Nephelaphyllum (1 ) Nervilia (2 ) Oberonia (2 ) Odontoglossum (1 ) Oeceoclades (3 ) Oncidium (7 ) Orchis (1 ) Pelexia (1 ) Pholidota (1 ) Phragmipedium (5 ) Platanthera (47 ) Pleurothallis (2 ) Podochilus (1 ) Pogonia (6 ) Prescottia (1 ) Sacoila (1 ) Scaphosepalum (1 ) Schiedeela (2 ) Schiedeella (6 ) Spathoglottis (3 ) Spiranthes (57 ) Stelis (1 ) Taeniophyllum (1 ) Thrixspermum (1 ) Tipularia (5 ) Tolumnia (3 ) Trigonidium (1 ) Vanilla (1 ) Zeuxine (1 )
