Universidad Técnica de Cotopaxi, Ecuador - Herbario (UTCEC-Herbario)

Taxonomic Coverage: All plant groups (Angiosperms, Gymnosperms, Pteridophytes, Bryophytes), Algae and Fungi

Geography: Neotropics, but focused on Central Ecuador

Curator del Herbario: Alina Freire-Fierro, alina.ff@gmail.com
Analista de herbario: Carlos Valencia, herbario@utc.edu.ec
Assistant Curator: Jaime Lema, jaime.lema@utc.edu.ec
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 3ab49734-9dfe-4a6e-8cbe-220df8a92e6a
Digital Metadata: EML File
Collection Statistics
  • 784 specimen records
  • 545 (70%) georeferenced
  • 45 (6%) with images (46 total images)
  • 475 (61%) identified to species
  • 88 families
  • 194 genera
  • 167 species
  • 168 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Achyrocline (6)
  • Ambrosia (17)
  • Aristeguietia (4)
  • Artemisia (4)
  • Baccharis (33)
  • Bidens (18)
  • Calendula (2)
  • Chuquiraga (24)
  • Cirsium (3)
  • Coreopsis (1)
  • Culcitium (7)
  • Cynara (1)
  • Dahlia (3)
  • Diplostephium (18)
  • Dorobaea (1)
  • Erigeron (7)
  • Espeletia (1)
  • Gaillardia (6)
  • Gazania (41)
  • Gynoxys (17)
  • Hypochaeris (5)
  • Jacobaea (4)
  • Lactuca (1)
  • Lasiocephalus (3)
  • Leucanthemum (16)
  • Liabum (1)
  • Loricaria (7)
  • Matricaria (6)
  • Mikania (6)
  • Monticalia (4)
  • Pentacalia (1)
  • Senecio (2)
  • Smallanthus (8)
  • Sonchus (4)
  • Tagetes (4)
  • Tanacetum (2)
  • Taraxacum (8)
  • Tilesia (1)
  • Trixis (1)
  • Vernonanthura (1)
  • Vernonia (2)
  • Werneria (2)