Echinocereus adustus

Echinocereus adustus is a species of Echinocereus. It's type locality is Cusihuiriachi, Chihuahua.

Background
Simple, short-cylindric, often only 4 to 6 cm. high; ribs 13 to 15; areoles closely set, elliptic; radial spines 16 to 20, appressed-pectinate, pale; the central spines wanting or solitary, sometimes elongated and porrect; flowers purplish, 3 to 4 cm. long; inner perianth-segments narrow; ovary and calyx-tube covered with clusters of short brown spines and long wool. Distributed in the Mountains near type locality.