Echinocereus sciurus

Echinocereus sciurus is a species of Echinocereus. It's type locality is the hills near San Jose del Cabo, Lower California.

Background
Densely cespitose, with many individuals forming clumps sometimes 60 cm. broad; stems slender, often 20 cm. long, often nearly hidden by the many spines; ribs 12 to 17, low, divided into numerous tubercles 5 to 6 mm. apart; areoles small, approximate, circular, at first woolly, becoming naked; radial spines 15 to 18, sometimes 15 mm. long, slender, pale except the brownish tips; centrals usually several shorter than the radials; flower-buds covered with numerous slender brown-tipped spines; flowers described as 7 cm. long, about 9 cm. broad when fully open; inner perianth-segments in 2 to 4 rows, bright magenta stamens numerous, with greenish filaments; pistil green with obtuse stigma-lobes; seeds 1 mm. long, tuberculate. Distributed in Southern end of Lower California.