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
  • Achyronychia (5)
  • Arenaria (119)
  • Cardionema (2)
  • Cerastium (104)
  • Cucubalus (1)
  • Dianthus (21)
  • Drymaria (36)
  • Eremogone (2)
  • Gypsophila (1)
  • Herniaria (2)
  • Holosteum (3)
  • Lidia (2)
  • Loeflingia (1)
  • Lychnis (17)
  • Minuartia (15)
  • Moehringia (3)
  • Moenchia (1)
  • Myosoton (3)
  • Paronychia (53)
  • Petrorhagia (12)
  • Polycarpon (5)
  • Pseudostellaria (4)
  • Sagina (12)
  • Saponaria (9)
  • Scleranthus (5)
  • Silene (184)
  • Spergula (6)
  • Spergularia (24)
  • Spergulastrum (8)
  • Stellaria (74)
  • Stipulicida (4)
  • Tunica (2)