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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
Usage Rights:
Rights Holder: University of Texas at El Paso
Access Rights: CC BY
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Brodoa (1)
  • Bryoria (8)
  • Bulbothrix (1)
  • Canoparmelia (1)
  • Cetraria (16)
  • Cetrelia (1)
  • Cornicularia (2)
  • Dactylina (1)
  • Esslingeriana (1)
  • Evernia (7)
  • Flavocetraria (4)
  • Flavoparmelia (22)
  • Flavopunctelia (55)
  • Hypogymnia (15)
  • Hypotrachyna (4)
  • Imshaugia (3)
  • Kaernefeltia (2)
  • Letharia (5)
  • Masonhalea (1)
  • Melanelia (29)
  • Myelochroa (2)
  • Nodobryoria (2)
  • Omphalodium (2)
  • Parmelia (21)
  • Parmelinopsis (2)
  • Parmeliopsis (4)
  • Parmotrema (72)
  • Platismatia (7)
  • Pseudevernia (24)
  • Punctelia (90)
  • Rhizoplaca (5)
  • Rimelia (6)
  • Rimeliella (1)
  • Tuckermannopsis (12)
  • Usnea (73)
  • Vulpicida (4)
  • Xanthoparmelia (110)