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|accepted_name=Echinocereus pentalophus
|accepted_authority=(de Candolle) Haage
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Cact.-Verz.,
|place=20. 1859
|year=1859
}}
|common_names=Alicoche;ladyfinger cactus
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Cereus pentalophus
|authority=de Candolle
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cactaceae;Cactaceae subfam. Cactoideae;Echinocereus;Echinocereus pentalophus
|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 pentalophus]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 4
|mention_page=page 158, 159
|treatment_page=page 171
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>branched, clumps to 20 × 100 cm. <b>Stems</b> weak, sprawling, soon decumbent [erect and rhizomatous], ± 10–60 × 1–2[–6] cm; ribs 4–5, crests sharp and straight to poorly defined and undulate; areoles 5–12 mm apart. <b>Spines</b> (3–)4–7(–9) per areole, usually very stiff and straight, yellowish, tan, ashy white to dark gray, or pale pink, tips dark, all terete; radial spines (3–)4–6(–8) per areole, spreading, 6–37 mm; central spines 0–1 per areole, porrect or ascending, 4–36(–60) mm. <b>Flowers</b> 6–10 × 7.5–10(–15) cm; flower tube 20–25 × 8–20 mm; flower tube hairs 3–6 mm; inner tepals brilliant pink or magenta distally with distinct white or yellow proximal regions of variable extent [very rarely white throughout], 3.5–6 × 9–18 mm, tips relatively thin and delicate; anthers orange-yellow; nectar chamber 3–6 mm. <b>Fruits</b> green, (10–)15–25 mm, pulp white. <b>2n</b> = 22.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Apr–May; fruiting 3-4 months after flowering.
|habitat=Tamaulipan thorn scrub, Agave lechuguilla-Hechtia associations, alluvial coastal plains, [pine-oak forests, limestone cliffs]
|elevation=0-2200 m
|distribution=Tex.;Mexico (Coahuila;Nuevo León;San Luis Potosí;Tamaulipas).
|discussion=<p>Our northern plants of Echinocereus pentalophus are var. procumbens (Engelmann) P. Fournier; they have often been misidentified as E. berlandieri. Both taxa have often been misidentified as the Mexican species E. blanckii [often misspelled as E. “blankii”], of confused authorship. Confusing variation of E. pentalophus has promulgated misidentifications, misapplications of names, and attempts to recognize multiple taxa.</p>
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name=Echinocereus pentalophus
|author=
|authority=(de Candolle) Haage
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Cereus pentalophus
|family=Cactaceae
|phenology=Flowering Apr–May; fruiting 3-4 months after flowering.
|habitat=Tamaulipan thorn scrub, Agave lechuguilla-Hechtia associations, alluvial coastal plains, [pine-oak forests, limestone cliffs]
|elevation=0-2200 m
|distribution=Tex.;Mexico (Coahuila;Nuevo León;San Luis Potosí;Tamaulipas).
|reference=None
|publication title=Cact.-Verz.,
|publication year=1859
|special status=
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|subfamily=Cactaceae subfam. Cactoideae
|genus=Echinocereus
|species=Echinocereus pentalophus
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