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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
  • Acradenia (1)
  • Acronychia (1)
  • Amyris (1)
  • Asterolasia (1)
  • Atalantia (1)
  • Boenninghausenia (1)
  • Boronia (11)
  • Burkillanthus (1)
  • Casimiroa (2)
  • Choisya (18)
  • Citrus (6)
  • Cneoridium (1)
  • Coleonema (1)
  • Correa (5)
  • Dictyoloma (1)
  • Eriostemon (6)
  • Esenbeckia (2)
  • Euodia (3)
  • Fagara (3)
  • Geijera (3)
  • Glycosmis (2)
  • Lunasia (1)
  • Luvunga (1)
  • Melicope (1)
  • Merrillia (1)
  • Microcybe (1)
  • Micromelum (1)
  • Murraya (1)
  • Phebalium (3)
  • Philotheca (2)
  • Poncirus (2)
  • Ptelea (63)
  • Ruta (3)
  • Sargentia (1)
  • Severinia (1)
  • Skimmia (1)
  • Zanthoxylum (26)