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.

Contacts: Richard Worthington, rworthin@utep.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 9 January 2024
IPT / DwC-A Source:
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: University of Texas at El Paso
Access Rights: CC BY
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
Collection Statistics
  • 83,736 specimen records
  • 65,019 (78%) georeferenced
  • 49,435 (59%) with images (100,945 total images)
  • 127 GenBank genetic references
  • 80,605 (96%) identified to species
  • 697 families
  • 4,447 genera
  • 18,954 species
  • 20,089 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Aa (1)
  • Anoectochilus (1)
  • Arethusa (1)
  • Arundina (3)
  • Beadlea (1)
  • Benzingia (1)
  • Bletia (2)
  • Bromheadia (1)
  • Bulbophyllum (3)
  • Calanthe (1)
  • Calopogon (4)
  • Calypso (7)
  • Cischweinfia (1)
  • Codonorchis (1)
  • Coelogyne (2)
  • Corallorhiza (52)
  • Cranichis (3)
  • Cryptophoranthus (1)
  • Cryptostylis (1)
  • Cypripedium (10)
  • Cyrtochilum (1)
  • Dactylorhiza (1)
  • Dendrobium (8)
  • Dendrochilum (2)
  • Dichaea (2)
  • Dilomilis (1)
  • Encyclia (2)
  • Epidendrum (15)
  • Epipactis (17)
  • Epipogium (1)
  • Eria (3)
  • Eulophia (1)
  • Flickingeria (3)
  • Galearis (2)
  • Geodorum (1)
  • Gongora (1)
  • Goodyera (19)
  • Govenia (1)
  • Grammatophyllum (1)
  • Habenaria (26)
  • Herminium (1)
  • Hexalectris (6)
  • Ionopsis (2)
  • Isochilus (1)
  • Isotria (1)
  • Laelia (1)
  • Limnorchis (9)
  • Liparis (2)
  • Listera (7)
  • Lockhartia (1)
  • Malaxis (44)
  • Masdevallia (1)
  • Maxillaria (5)
  • Microthelys (1)
  • Nephelaphyllum (1)
  • Nervilia (2)
  • Oberonia (2)
  • Odontoglossum (1)
  • Oeceoclades (3)
  • Oncidium (7)
  • Orchis (1)
  • Pelexia (1)
  • Pholidota (1)
  • Phragmipedium (5)
  • Platanthera (47)
  • Pleurothallis (2)
  • Podochilus (1)
  • Pogonia (6)
  • Prescottia (1)
  • Sacoila (1)
  • Scaphosepalum (1)
  • Schiedeela (2)
  • Schiedeella (6)
  • Spathoglottis (3)
  • Spiranthes (57)
  • Stelis (1)
  • Taeniophyllum (1)
  • Thrixspermum (1)
  • Tipularia (5)
  • Tolumnia (3)
  • Trigonidium (1)
  • Triphora (1)
  • Vanilla (1)
  • Zeuxine (1)