Pelecyphora hesteri is a species of flowering plant in the family Cactaceae, native to Texas, United States.

Pelecyphora hesteri grows with many shoots, is often richly branched and forms cushions.

[1] Pelecyphora hesteri is distributed in Brewster County, Texas, in the United States.

The first description as Coryphantha hesteri by Ysabel Wright was published in 1932.

[2] The specific epithet hesteri honors the American cactus lover John Pinckney Hester from Fredonia, one of the leading researchers of the Big Bend area.