Echinocereus rosei

Echinocereus rosei is a species of Echinocereus. It's type locality is Agricultural College, New Mexico.

Background
Cespitose, forming small compact clumps, the stems 1 to 2 dm. long, 5 to 8 cm. in diameter; sometimes as many as 40; ribs 8 to 11, obtuse; areoles rather closely set; spines pinkish to brownish gray; radial spines about 10, spreading; centrals 4, 4 to 6 cm. long; flowers 4 to 6 cm. long, scarlet; inner perianth-segments broad, obtuse; spines on ovary and flower-tube brownish or yellowish, intermixed with short hairs; fruit spiny. Distributed in mountains and dry hills and sometimes on the mesas of southern New Mexico, western Texas, and adjacent parts of northern Mexico.