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Chisos mountain hedhog cactus (Echinocereus chisosensis)

Description

The species occurs in Texas in the USA (Powell et al. 2008) and in Coahuila and maybe in Durango, Mexico (Hunt et al. 2006), at elevations of 650 to 750 m asl (Amos and Vassiliou 2001).

Taxonomic tree

  • Domain: Eukarya

    • Kingdom: Plantae

      • Phylum: Magnoliophyta

        • Class: Magnoliopsida

          • Order: Caryophyllales

            • Family: Cactaceae

              • Genus: Echinocereus