Echinocereus pectinatus

Echinocereus pectinatus is a species of Echinocereus. It's type locality is near Villa del Pennasco, central Mexico.

Background
Plants simple, erect, cylindric, 1 to 1.5 dm. long, 3 to 6 cm. in diameter, almost hidden by the many short interlocking spines; ribs 20 to 22, usually straight; areoles approximate, but not touching one another, elliptic, 3 mm. long; radial spines about 30, pectinate, usually much less than 10 mm. long, white or rose-colored, the colors more or less in bands about the plant; central spines several, more or less porrect; flowers purplish, 6 to 8 cm. long; areoles on ovary and flower-tube felted, very spiny; fruit spiny, becoming naked, 2 to 3 cm. in diameter. Distributed in Central Mexico.