The tubular-funnel-shaped flowers are pink to orange apricot with a magenta inside.

They appear along the sides of the shoots from sharply pointed buds, are 8 to 10.3 cm (3.1 to 4.1 in) long and 4.4 to 6.5 cm (1.7 to 2.6 in) diameter with a hairy tube covered with white woolly hairs.

[1] The fruit is round 20 to 24 mm (0.79 to 0.94 in) in length, greenish brown with white flesh and black seeds.

[1] This species was first described in 1856 by Frederick Scheer, who named it after Joseph zu Salm-Reifferscheidt-Dyck.

The plant is distinguished from Echinocereus scheeri by having shorter spines and its stems.