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
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
Acalypha (146 ) Adelia (1 ) Adriana (2 ) Agaloma (2 ) Alchornea (2 ) Aleurites (1 ) Amperea (1 ) Antidesma (8 ) Aporosa (2 ) Argythamnia (2 ) Baccaurea (8 ) Baliospermum (1 ) Bernardia (16 ) Bertya (2 ) Beyeria (5 ) Bischofia (1 ) Blumeodendron (1 ) Breynia (1 ) Bridelia (2 ) Caperonia (4 ) Celaenodendron (1 ) Chamaesyce (587 ) Choriceras (1 ) Cleistanthus (1 ) Cnidoscolus (14 ) Codiaeum (1 ) Croton (241 ) Crotonopsis (12 ) Dalechampia (4 ) Ditaxis (54 ) Drypetes (6 ) Endospermum (2 ) Eremocarpus (9 ) Euphorbia (421 ) Excoecaria (3 ) Glochidion (15 ) Hevea (1 ) Hippomane (1 ) Homalanthus (6 ) Hura (1 ) Jatropha (59 ) Koilodepas (1 ) Macaranga (16 ) Mallotus (7 ) Manihot (7 ) Melanolepis (2 ) Mercurialis (4 ) Micrantheum (1 ) Pedilanthus (1 ) Peltandra (4 ) Pera (1 ) Petalostigma (1 ) Phyllanthodendron (1 ) Phyllanthus (11 ) Pimelodendron (1 ) Poinsettia (7 ) Poranthera (3 ) Pseudanthus (1 ) Reverchonia (13 ) Ricinus (9 ) Sapium (13 ) Sauropus (1 ) Sebastiania (16 ) Seidelia (2 ) Stillingia (22 ) Suregada (1 ) Synostemon (1 ) Tetracoccus (2 ) Tithymalus (1 ) Tragia (79 ) Triadica (1 ) Trigonostemon (1 ) Vernicia (2 ) Zygophyllidium (2 )