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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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Contacts:

Richard Worthington, rworthin@utep.edu

Address:

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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More Information

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

Acer (130)
Aesculus (31)
Alectryon (4)
Allophylus (4)
Athyana (1)
Boniodendron (1)
Cardiospermum (18)
Cupania (1)
Delavaya (1)
Dimocarpus (1)
Diplokeleba (1)
Diplopeltis (1)
Distichostemon (1)
Dodonaea (25)
Guioa (4)
Harpullia (1)
Koelreuteria (6)
Matayba (1)
Melicoccus (3)
Nephelium (5)
Paullinia (9)
Pometia (1)
Sapindus (30)
Serjania (19)
Thouinia (3)
Thouinidium (1)
Trigonachras (1)
Ungnadia (42)
Urvillea (3)