UTEP Plants (Arctos)
Citation
Mayfield-Meyer T, Zhuang V (2023). UTEP Plants (Arctos). Version 5.76. University of Texas at El Paso Biodiversity Collections. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/yhb6ky accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-04-02.Description
The Herbarium contains well over 82,000 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 partially from a thorough floral survey and inventory across an east-west transect running from the Guadalupe/Davis Mountains of Texas to the Chiricahua Mountains of Arizona; voucher samples of specimens from which nectar samples were collected for the nectar chemistry research of C. E. Freeman and W. H. Reid; a seed collection, representing more than 800 species of mostly Southwestern taxa with individual samples mounted on slides and cross-indexed to their source sheets in the main herbarium collection; a cryptogamic collection in excess of 650 specimens, predominately lichens and mosses from various areas in southwestern North America, with significant collections of local specimens used for baseline data in studies by R. D. Worthington and his students on air pollution effects in the El Paso/Ciudad Juarez area; a synoptic collection from White Sands National Monument, representing survey work performed by W. H. Reid during the early 1970's.Taxonomic Coverages
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Plantaerank: kingdom
Geographic Coverages
Overall geographic content of the Herbarium is approximately as follows: Texas, 24%; New Mexico, 22%; other USA, 32%; Mexico, 7%; other world, 15%.
Bibliographic Citations
Contacts
Teresa Mayfield-Meyeroriginator
position: Collection Data Volunteer, UTEP Biodiversity Collections
University of Texas at El Paso
500 West University Avenue, Biology Bldg. #222
El Paso
79968
TX
US
Telephone: +01 214-693-9269
email: tmayfield.utepbc@jegelewicz.net
homepage: https://www.utep.edu/biodiversity/collections/herbarium.html
Vicky Zhuang
originator
position: Manager, UTEP Biodiversity Collections
University of Texas at El Paso
500 West University Avenue, Biology Bldg. #222
El Paso
79968
TX
US
Telephone: +01 915-747-5479
email: mzhuang@utep.edu
homepage: https://www.utep.edu/biodiversity/collections/herbarium.html
Teresa Mayfield-Meyer
metadata author
position: Collection Data Volunteer, UTEP Biodiversity Collections
University of Texas at El Paso
500 West University Avenue, Biology Bldg. #222
El Paso
79968
TX
US
Telephone: +01 214-693-9269
email: tmayfield.utepbc@jegelewicz.net
homepage: https://www.utep.edu/biodiversity/collections/herbarium.html
Vicky Zhuang
metadata author
position: Manager, UTEP Biodiversity Collections
University of Texas at El Paso
500 West University Avenue, Biology Bldg. #222
El Paso
79968
TX
US
Telephone: +01 915-747-5479
email: mzhuang@utep.edu
homepage: https://www.utep.edu/biodiversity/collections/herbarium.html
Laura Russell
programmer
position: Programmer
VertNet
email: larussell@vertnet.org
homepage: http://www.vertnet.org
David Bloom
programmer
position: Coordinator
VertNet
email: dbloom@vertnet.org
homepage: http://www.vertnet.org
John Wieczorek
programmer
position: Information Architect
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at UC Berkeley
email: tuco@berkeley.edu
Dusty McDonald
point of contact
position: Arctos Database Programmer
University of Alaska Museum
email: dlmcdonald@alaska.edu
homepage: http://arctos.database.museum
Vicky Zhuang
administrative point of contact
position: Manager, UTEP Biodiversity Collections
University of Texas at El Paso
500 West University Avenue, Biology Bldg. #222
El Paso
79968
TX
US
Telephone: +01 915-747-5479
email: mzhuang@utep.edu
homepage: https://www.utep.edu/biodiversity/collections/herbarium.html
Teresa Mayfield-Meyer
administrative point of contact
position: Collection Data Volunteer, UTEP Biodiversity Collections
University of Texas at El Paso
500 West University Avenue, Biology Bldg. #222
El Paso
79968
TX
US
Telephone: +01 214-693-9269
email: tmayfield.utepbc@jegelewicz.net
homepage: https://www.utep.edu/biodiversity/collections/herbarium.html
Richard Worthington
administrative point of contact
position: Curator, UTEP Biodiversity Collections Herbarium
University of Texas at El Paso
500 West University Avenue, Biology Bldg. #222
El Paso
79968
TX
US
email: rworthin@utep.edu
homepage: https://www.utep.edu/biodiversity/collections/herbarium.html