Soehrensia schickendantzii is a cactus found in northwestern Argentina in provinces of Salta and Tucumán at elevations of 1600 to 3200 meters.

[2] Soehrensia schickendantzii grows shrubby, occasionally solitary, but usually branches out from the base and forms clumps.

The hypanthium is tubular to funnel-shaped, white, unscented flowers appear near the top of the shoot and open at night.

[3] The plant was first circumscribed by Frédéric Albert Constantin Weber and published in 1896 as Echinopsis schickendantzii then Schlumpb.

[4] The Latin epithet of schickendantzii honors the German chemist Friedrich Schickendantz (1837–1896), who emigrated to Argentina in 1861.