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)

Home Page: https://www.utep.edu/biodiversity/collections/herbarium.html

Collection Type: Preserved Specimens

Management: Data snapshot of local collection database

Digital Metadata: EML File

Usage Rights: CC0 1.0 (Public-domain)

Rights Holder: University of Texas at El Paso

Access Rights: CC BY

• 85,504 occurrence
• 36,840 (43%) georeferenced
• 3,041 (4%) with images
• 2,408 GenBank references
• 79,359 (93%) identified to species
• 644 families
• 3,934 genera
• 16,741 species
• 17,785 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)