Echinocereus scheeri subs. obscuriensis
Cactaceae Syst. Init. 16: 17 (11 Oct. 2003) cf. Repert. Pl. Succ. (I.O.S.) 45: 9 (1994 publ. 1995) Remarks: first published in U.Guzmán et al., Catálogo Cact. Mex.: 74 (May 2003), without basionym reference
Family
Cactaceae
Genus
Species
Echinocereus scheeri subs. obscuriensis
Author
(A.B.Lau) U.Guzmán
Chinese genus
鹿角柱属
Chinese name
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Accepted
DescriptionEdit description
Habit
It is a columnar cactus, forming clumps or cushions with densely arranged shoots sometime creeping over boulders and cascading down sides.
Central Spines
Usually 1, acicular, terete, longer and stiffer.
Flowers
Funnelform on the sides of the stems, 6-10 cm long, huge colourful bright orange-red, with long hairy tube. Tepals orange-apricot to rose magenta inside, paler and less colourful outside. Stigma lobes 9 green.
Ribs
6-10 .
Stem
10-40 cm tall and 2,5 to 4 cm in diameter, upright cylindrical, yellowish-green to dark green.
Radial Spines
up 10 short to long, the young spines are yellowish or reddish-brown but turns cream or pale greyish-brown or rapidly.
Areoles
Small.