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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
  • Acaena (3)
  • Acomastylis (7)
  • Adenostoma (8)
  • Agrimonia (17)
  • Alchemilla (8)
  • Amelanchier (41)
  • Aphanes (3)
  • Aronia (9)
  • Aruncus (3)
  • Cerasus (1)
  • Cercocarpus (65)
  • Chaenomeles (2)
  • Chamaebatia (4)
  • Chamaebatiaria (2)
  • Coleogyne (5)
  • Comarum (1)
  • Cotoneaster (5)
  • Cowania (16)
  • Crataegus (81)
  • Dasiphora (1)
  • Drymocallis (5)
  • Eriobotrya (2)
  • Fallugia (78)
  • Filipendula (1)
  • Fragaria (32)
  • Geum (36)
  • Gillenia (3)
  • Heteromeles (3)
  • Holodiscus (22)
  • Horkelia (5)
  • Ivesia (5)
  • Kerria (1)
  • Luetkea (1)
  • Lyonothamnus (4)
  • Malus (4)
  • Mespilus (1)
  • Pentaphylloides (13)
  • Petrophytum (18)
  • Photinia (9)
  • Physocarpus (8)
  • Porteranthus (1)
  • Potentilla (184)
  • Prunus (126)
  • Purshia (20)
  • Pyracantha (7)
  • Pyrus (14)
  • Rhaphiolepis (3)
  • Rosa (70)
  • Rubus (110)
  • Sanguisorba (18)
  • Sorbaria (1)
  • Sorbus (7)
  • Spiraea (22)
  • Vauquelinia (15)
  • Waldsteinia (2)