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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.
Contact: Vicky Zhuang (mzhuang@utep.edu) and Michael Moody (mlmoody@utep.edu) and Richard Worthington (rworthin@utep.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 14 July 2020
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
Collection Statistics
  • 84,021 occurrence
  • 35,032 (42%) georeferenced
  • 291 (0.35%) with images
  • 56 GenBank references
  • 77,585 (92%) identified to species
  • 601 families
  • 3,874 genera
  • 16,495 species
  • 17,532 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics