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
  • 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)