Berkheyopsis echinus is a species of flowering plant in the sunflower family, Asteraceae.

[1] The species was first described as Hirpicium echinus by Christian Friedrich Lessing in 1832.

Karl August Otto Hoffmann renamed the species Berkheyopsis echinus in 1895.

[1] Many authorities continued to treat Berkheyopsis as a synonym of Hirpicium.

In 2018 Stångberg, Karis, and Anderberg concluded that Hirpicium was paraphyletic, and that the species formed a distinct clade, and revived Berkheyopsis as a monotypic genus.