Echinocereus schereri

Echinocereus schereri is a species of cactus native to Mexico.

Description

Echinocereus schereri typically grows solitary with gray-green cylindrical shoots up to long and in diameter. It has 12 to 18 tuberous ribs and no central spines. There are 21 to 24 comb-like radial spines, slightly pink to brownish with darker tips, measuring long. The flowers are funnel-shaped and reddish-purple, appearing near the shoot tips. They are long and in diameter. The fruits are spherical to egg-shaped, starting green and turning brown.

Distribution

Echinocereus schereri is found growing in the rocky slopes and shrub-land in Sonora, Chihuahua, and Durango, México, at elevations between 350 and 1800 meters. Plants are found along with Cochemiea grahamii, Mammillaria standleyi, Mammillaria marksiana, Mammillaria mercadensis, Mammillaria standleyi, and Echinocereus subinermis.

Taxonomy

It was first described by Gerhard R. W. Frank in 1990. The species is named in honor of German cactus collector Egon Scherer.