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
Acinos (1 ) Aegiphila (2 ) Agastache (63 ) Ajuga (12 ) Asterohyptis (5 ) Ballota (3 ) Becium (1 ) Betonica (2 ) Blephilia (5 ) Brazoria (16 ) Calamintha (5 ) Callicarpa (19 ) Caryopteris (1 ) Cedronella (1 ) Clerodendrum (17 ) Clinopodium (17 ) Coleus (2 ) Collinsonia (6 ) Congea (1 ) Conradina (6 ) Cornutia (1 ) Cunila (4 ) Dicerandra (2 ) Dicrastylis (4 ) Dracocephalum (10 ) Epimeredi (1 ) Galeobdolon (1 ) Galeopsis (20 ) Glechoma (8 ) Glecoma (1 ) Gmelina (1 ) Hedeoma (163 ) Hyptis (49 ) Lamium (78 ) Lavandula (2 ) Leonotis (5 ) Leonurus (2 ) Lepechinia (4 ) Leucas (2 ) Lycopus (20 ) Marrubium (42 ) Melissa (4 ) Mentha (57 ) Mesona (1 ) Micromeria (1 ) Moluccella (1 ) Monarda (134 ) Monardella (36 ) Nepeta (4 ) Newcastelia (1 ) Ocimum (10 ) Origanum (4 ) Orthosiphon (1 ) Paraphlomis (1 ) Perilla (10 ) Perovskia (1 ) Phlomis (3 ) Physostegia (28 ) Piloblephis (1 ) Pityrodia (2 ) Plectranthus (5 ) Pogogyne (5 ) Poliomintha (26 ) Premna (5 ) Prostanthera (7 ) Prunella (41 ) Pycnanthemum (40 ) Rabdosia (1 ) Rhododon (3 ) Rosmarinus (12 ) Salazaria (16 ) Salvia (438 ) Satureja (11 ) Scutellaria (112 ) Sideritis (2 ) Solenostemon (2 ) Spartothamnella (1 ) Stachys (82 ) Suzukia (1 ) Synandra (1 ) Teijsmanniodendron (1 ) Tetraclea (47 ) Teucrium (61 ) Thymus (9 ) Trichostema (42 ) Vitex (23 ) Volkameria (2 ) Warnockia (1 ) Westringia (5 )