Common Fishhook Cactus

Cochemiea tetrancistra (Engelm.) P.B.Breslin & Majure is treated as an accepted taxon in Plants of the World Online.¹

The current source-backed classification places it in Cactaceae within Cochemiea.¹²

Its recorded native range/source remark is UTA, SOUTHWESTERNUSA, MEXICO, MXN, MXNSI, NORTHERNAMERICA, CAL, MXNSO, NEV, ARI, MXNBS, CALOO; SW. U.S.A. to NW. Mexico.¹

POWO records the plant context as succulent subshrub, desert or dry shrubland.¹

This is a source-populated draft intended for later Kaktus Doktoru editorial rewriting; care advice and morphology should be reviewed before publication.