Echinocereus neo-mexicanus

Echinocereus neo-mexicanus is a species of Echinocereus. It's type locality is Mesa west of the Organ Mountains, New Mexico.

Background
Cespitose, but with only a few stout simple joints, 18 to 25 cm. long, 7 cm. in diameter, obtuse, glaucous-green; ribs 11 or 12, obtuse, low, somewhat tuberculate; areoles 1 to 1.5 cm. apart; spines slender, subulate, somewhat spreading; radial spines 13 to 16, the longest only 1.5 cm. long, white or nearly so; central spines 6, the lowest one yellowish to almost white, the others reddish, sometimes 4 cm. long; flowers abundant, appearing near the top or along the sides of the plant, 5 cm. long, narrow and not spreading at the mouth, bright scarlet; perianth-segments acute, firm in texture, 2 cm. long, 6 mm. broad; stamens about half as long as the style; stigma-lobes 7; ovary and flower-tube bearing clusters of bristly spines; fruit not known. Known distribution only from the type locality.