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
  • Acacia (224)
  • Acmispon (1)
  • Adenanthera (1)
  • Aeschynomene (15)
  • Albizia (17)
  • Alhagi (5)
  • Alysicarpus (6)
  • Amicia (2)
  • Amorpha (40)
  • Amphicarpa (2)
  • Amphicarpaea (1)
  • Andira (3)
  • Anthyllis (6)
  • Apios (6)
  • Arachis (10)
  • Astragalus (448)
  • Baptisia (24)
  • Bauhinia (7)
  • Caesalpinia (52)
  • Cajanus (2)
  • Calliandra (34)
  • Calopogonium (2)
  • Canavalia (12)
  • Caragana (2)
  • Cassia (3)
  • Centrosema (21)
  • Ceratonia (1)
  • Cercidium (13)
  • Cercis (16)
  • Chamaecrista (37)
  • Cladrastis (1)
  • Clitoria (12)
  • Cologania (19)
  • Colutea (1)
  • Coronilla (13)
  • Coursetia (12)
  • Crotalaria (60)
  • Cytisus (7)
  • Dalbergia (3)
  • Dalea (371)
  • Daubentonia (3)
  • Daviesia (1)
  • Delonix (3)
  • Dendrolobium (3)
  • Derris (1)
  • Desmanthus (53)
  • Desmodium (135)
  • Dillwynia (2)
  • Dioclea (2)
  • Diphysa (3)
  • Enterolobium (1)
  • Errazurizia (6)
  • Erythrina (15)
  • Eutaxia (1)
  • Eysenhardtia (26)
  • Galactia (31)
  • Gastrolobium (1)
  • Genista (2)
  • Geoffroea (1)
  • Gleditsia (10)
  • Gliricidia (4)
  • Glottidium (3)
  • Glycine (1)
  • Glycyrrhiza (15)
  • Gompholobium (2)
  • Gymnocladus (1)
  • Hedysarum (2)
  • Hoffmannseggia (92)
  • Hoita (1)
  • Hymenaea (1)
  • Indigofera (35)
  • Inga (9)
  • Jacksonia (2)
  • Kummerowia (6)
  • Labichea (1)
  • Lablab (2)
  • Laburnum (1)
  • Lathyrus (66)
  • Lespedeza (60)
  • Leucaena (12)
  • Lonchocarpus (1)
  • Lotus (230)
  • Lupinus (340)
  • Lysiloma (2)
  • Machaerium (5)
  • Macroptilium (39)
  • Marina (4)
  • Medicago (131)
  • Melilotus (100)
  • Mimosa (109)
  • Moghania (1)
  • Mucuna (1)
  • Myrospermum (2)
  • Myroxylon (2)
  • Neorudolphia (4)
  • Neptunia (20)
  • Nissolia (3)
  • Olneya (4)
  • Onobrychis (2)
  • Ononis (2)
  • Orbexilum (4)
  • Ornithopus (1)
  • Oxytropis (38)
  • Pachyrhizus (1)
  • Parkinsonia (30)
  • Pediomelum (9)
  • Peltophorum (1)
  • Petalostemon (2)
  • Petalostemum (8)
  • Peteria (12)
  • Phaseolus (89)
  • Phyllota (2)
  • Pickeringia (4)
  • Pictetia (2)
  • Piscidia (3)
  • Pithecellobium (12)
  • Platylobium (2)
  • Platymiscium (1)
  • Poitea (1)
  • Pongamia (2)
  • Prosopis (115)
  • Psoralea (19)
  • Psoralidium (29)
  • Psorothamnus (56)
  • Pterocarpus (6)
  • Pueraria (6)
  • Pultenaea (3)
  • Rhynchosia (66)
  • Robinia (60)
  • Rupertia (2)
  • Schrankia (14)
  • Scorpiurus (1)
  • Senegalia (1)
  • Senna (217)
  • Sesbania (38)
  • Sophora (43)
  • Spartium (9)
  • Sphaerolobium (1)
  • Sphaerophysa (13)
  • Strophostyles (21)
  • Stylosanthes (16)
  • Swainsona (9)
  • Tamarindus (4)
  • Templetonia (3)
  • Tephrosia (40)
  • Thermopsis (26)
  • Tipuana (2)
  • Trifolium (273)
  • Trigonella (1)
  • Ulex (1)
  • Uraria (1)
  • Vachellia (1)
  • Vicia (207)
  • Vigna (17)
  • Viminaria (1)
  • Willardia (1)
  • Wisteria (7)
  • Zapoteca (1)
  • Zornia (10)