[3] Soehrensia strigosa grows shrubby, branching out from the base and forming dense clumps up to 1 meter in diameter.

The circular, large areoles located on them are initially white and are up to 0.8 centimeters apart.

The numerous, finely needle-like, whitish to yellowish to reddish-brown thorns that emerge from them are occasionally darker-tipped.

Soehrensia strigosa is widespread in the Argentine provinces of Salta, Tucumán, Catamarca, La Rioja, San Juan and Mendoza in the montane vegetation at lower altitudes from 700 to 2000 meters.

The first description as Cereus strigosus by Joseph zu Salm-Reifferscheidt-Dyck was published in 1834.