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
Usage Rights: CC0 1.0 (Public-domain)
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.)
