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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
  • Aconitum (14)
  • Actaea (13)
  • Adonis (2)
  • Anemone (88)
  • Anemonella (1)
  • Anemonoides (1)
  • Aquilegia (63)
  • Caltha (13)
  • Ceratocephala (1)
  • Cimicifuga (2)
  • Clematis (125)
  • Coptis (3)
  • Delphinium (145)
  • Eranthis (1)
  • Ficaria (3)
  • Helleborus (3)
  • Hepatica (4)
  • Isopyrum (2)
  • Myosurus (16)
  • Nigella (3)
  • Pulsatilla (2)
  • Ranunculus (228)
  • Semiaquilegia (1)
  • Thalictrum (61)
  • Trautvetteria (1)
  • Trollius (7)