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.
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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
  • Agave (4)
  • Androstephium (3)
  • Anthericum (21)
  • Asparagus (20)
  • Bloomeria (3)
  • Brodiaea (8)
  • Camassia (5)
  • Chlorogalum (2)
  • Convallaria (4)
  • Dasylirion (38)
  • Dichelostemma (39)
  • Dracaena (2)
  • Echeandia (4)
  • Leucocrinum (3)
  • Liriope (1)
  • Lomandra (1)
  • Maianthemum (9)
  • Milla (9)
  • Muilla (1)
  • Muscari (4)
  • Nolina (45)
  • Polygonatum (9)
  • Sansevieria (1)
  • Schoenolirion (2)
  • Triteleia (7)
  • Yucca (1)