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|accepted_name=Echinocereus chisosensis
|accepted_authority=W. T. Marshall
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Cact. Succ. J. (Los Angeles)
|place=12: 15, cover, plate 1. 1940
|year=1940
}}
|common_names=Chisos Mountains hedgehog cactus
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
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|code=C
|label=Conservation concern
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|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Echinocereus reichenbachii var. chisosensis
|authority=(W. T. Marshall) L. D. Benson
|rank=variety
}}
|hierarchy=Cactaceae;Cactaceae subfam. Cactoideae;Echinocereus;Echinocereus chisosensis
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Cactaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Cactaceae subfam. Cactoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Echinocereus]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Echinocereus chisosensis]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 4
|mention_page=page 172
|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>inconspicuous, unbranched or forming small lax clumps. <b>Stems</b> erect or ascending, short cylindric, 12.5–20(–30) × 3–5 cm; ribs (10–)13–16, crests strongly undulate; areoles 5–8.5 mm apart. <b>Spines</b> 11–20 per areole, straight, white, pinkish gray, pale pink, dark brown, or purplish black, tipped brown, central spines darkest (sometimes with annual rings of ± contrasting spine color); radial spines 10–17 per areole, 5–20 mm; central spines (1–)2(–6) per areole, appressed to slightly projecting or spreading, terete, 3.5–17 mm. <b>Flowers</b> 6–9.5 × 5–7 cm; flower tube 10–30 mm; flower tube hairs 3–5(–10) mm; inner tepals white proximally, with basal marks crimson or maroon, bright rose-pink distally, 1.8–5 × 5–16 mm, tips relatively thin and delicate; anthers yellow; nectar chamber 1–2 mm. <b>Fruits</b> green, 15– 35 mm, pulp white. <b>2n</b> = 22.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Mar–May; fruiting 2 months after flowering.
|habitat=Chihuahuan Desert, usually sheltered by low, perennial vegetation, desert scrub, gravelly alluvium, bajadas
|elevation=600-900 m
|distribution=Tex.
|discussion=<p>Of conservation concern.</p><!--
--><p><i>Echinocereus</i> fobeanus Oehme, of Mexico, sometimes has been considered a variety of <i>E. chisosensis</i>. Both species seem to be relicts and rare.</p><!--
--><p><i>Echinocereus chisosensis</i> is in the Center for Plant Conservation’s Collection of Endangered Plants.</p>
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name=Echinocereus chisosensis
|authority=W. T. Marshall
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Echinocereus reichenbachii var. chisosensis
|basionyms=
|family=Cactaceae
|phenology=Flowering Mar–May; fruiting 2 months after flowering.
|habitat=Chihuahuan Desert, usually sheltered by low, perennial vegetation, desert scrub, gravelly alluvium, bajadas
|elevation=600-900 m
|distribution=Tex.
|reference=None
|publication title=Cact. Succ. J. (Los Angeles)
|publication year=1940
|special status=Endemic;Conservation concern
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|subfamily=Cactaceae subfam. Cactoideae
|genus=Echinocereus
|species=Echinocereus chisosensis
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