Echinocereus reichenbachii

Echinocereus reichenbachii is a species of Echinocereus. It's type locality is Mexico.

Background
More or less cespitose; stems simple, globose to short-cylindric, 2.5 to 20 cm. long, 5 to 9 cm. in diameter; ribs 12 to 19; areoles approximate, elliptic; spines 20 to 30, white to brown, but usually those of each individual plant of one color, pectinate, interlocking, 5 to 8 mm. long, spreading, more or less recurved; centrals 1 or 2, like the radials, or often wanting; flowers fragrant, rather variable as to size, often 6 to 7 cm. long and fully as broad, opening during the day, always closing at night and sometimes opening the second day, light purple, often reflexed; perianth-segments narrow, the margin more or less erose; filaments pinkish; fruit ovoid, about 1 cm. long; seeds black, nearly globose, 1.2 to 1.4 mm. in diameter. Distributed in Texas and northern Mexico; recorded from western Kansas.

Varieties/Subspecies
E. r. armatus

E. r. baileyi

E. r. fitchii

E. r. perbellus

E. r. reichenbachii