**Code**: [TEX](https://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/ih/herbarium-details/?irn=126843) **Organization**: University of Texas at Austin **Location**: Austin, Texas, U.S.A. **Total number of specimens**: 1006000 **Current status**: Active **Date founded**: 1890 **Taxonomic coverage**: Concentrations in Asteraceae, Celastraceae, Eriocaulaceae, Fabaceae, Fagaceae, Myrsinaceae, Passifloraceae, Rhamnaceae, Sapotaceae, Verbenaceae **Geographic coverage**: Texas; southwestern U.S.; Latin America, especially Mexico and northern Central America; worldwide, with emphasis on Latin America **Incorporated herbaria**: Part of LCU, LL (65 000 specimens), City of Austin in 2020 (600 specimens), RUNYON in 2021 (6,500 specimens), UTD (250 000 specimens)., USVT, in part (763 specimens) in 2014., LSUS, in part (3403 specimens) in 2015., H.-D. Behnke (2399 sieve-element plastid vouchers) in 2000-2001 **Important collectors**: D. Behnke, S. F. Blake, W. L. Bray, W. R. Carr, E. Contreras, D. S. Correll, P. H. Gentle, J. Henrickson, G. B. Hinton, J. Hinton, I. M. Johnston, M. C. Johnston, F. Lindheimer, C. L. Lundell, E. Matuda, W. R. Maxon, R. McVaugh, H. N. Moldenke, C. H. Muller, C. G. Pringle, A. Richardson, R. Runyon, W. A. Silveus, B. C. Tharp, B. H. Warnock, T. Wendt, M. S. Young **Notes**: Updated Aug 2017 (Herbarium name updated). The C. L. Lundell herbarium (LL) integrated at TEX. Specimens from Lundell herbaria (LL and UTD) should be cited as LL. TEX Philippine myxomycetes of C. J. Alexopoulos transferred to LAM. TEX fungi (1116 specimens) transferred to NY in 1990. H.-Dietmar Behnke, who worked at the University of Heidelberg, kept a personal herbarium of vouchers for his extensive work on sieve-element plastids, published from the 1960s through the 1990s. Upon retirement he gave that collection (2399 sieve-plastid vouchers) to TEX in 2000-2001. **Date modified in Index Herbariorum**: 2021-08-26 > [!cite] This page is automatically generated • Data on this page were obtained from [Index Herbariorum](https://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/ih/) on 2023-08-23. • Meaning of acronyms in TL-2 is not always the same as in IH. Consult list of original [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]] if you suspect acronym mismatch.