Echinocereus triglochidiatus

Echinocereus triglochidiatus is a species of Echinocereus.

Background
Always cespitose, with few or many simple stems, these 2 to 6 dm. long, 5 to 8 cm. in diameter, deep green, erect or spreading, 5 to 8-ribbed; spines 3 to 8, various, nearly terete to strongly angled, when young reddish to yellow, but gray in age, usually spreading, often all radial, 3 cm. long or less; flowers scale 5 to 7 cm. long; perianth-segments oblong, obtuse, 3 cm. long; areoles on the flower-tube and ovary few white-felted, the subtending scales small and red; spines on ovary and flower-tube few, red and white fruit at first spiny, but in age smooth, bright red, 3 cm. in diameter; seeds 1.6 mm. in diameter or less.