Trichloris pluriflora E. Fourn.

Trichloris pluriflora Fourn. Mex. PI. Gram. 2: 142. 1886
Chloropsis pluriflora Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 771. 1891. (Based on Trichloris pluriflora Fourn.)
Culms rather coarse, 60-140 cm. tall, erect, simple or sparingly branching, sheaths, except the lowermost, much shorter than the internodes, obscurely keeled, glabrous; ligule membranaceous, minutely erose, 0.5 mm. long; blades mostly 15-35 cm. long, 5-12 mm. wide, firm, flat, attenuate, scabrous; spikes 6-20, 5-15 cm. long, narrowly ascending, the spikelets not greatly obscured by the awns; glumes acuminate, awn-pointed, the first 2.5-3 mm. long, the second about 4 mm. long; lower lemma 4 mm. long, the upper ones successively shorter, the central awn 5-15 mm. long, the lateral ones very short or obsolete.
Type LOCALrTv: Mexico (Karwinsky) .
Distribution: Sandy plains and dry woods, Texas and Mexico; also from Ecuador to Argentina.

Perennials, Terrestrial, not aquatic, Stems nodes swollen or brittle, Stems erect or ascending, Stems caespitose, tufted, or clustered, Stems terete, round in cross section, or polygonal, Stem internodes hollow, Stems with inflorescence less than 1 m tall, Stems with inflorescence 1-2 m tall, Stems, culms, or scapes exceeding basal leaves, Leaves mostly basal, below middle of stem, Leaves mostly cauline, Leaves conspicuously 2-ranked, distichous, Leaves sheathing at base, Leaf sheath mostly open, or loose, Leaf sheath smooth, glabrous, Leaf sheath hairy, hispid or prickly, Leaf sheath or blade keeled, Leaf sheath and blade differentiated, Leaf blades linear, Leaf blades 2-10 mm wide, Leaf blade margins folded, involute, or conduplicate, Leaf blades mostly glabrous, Leaf blades more or less hairy, Leaf blades scabrous, roughened, or wrinkled, Ligule present, Ligule a fringe of hairs, Inflorescence terminal, Inflorescence solitary, with 1 spike, fascicle, glomerule, head, or cluster per stem or culm, Inflorescence a panicle with narrowly racemose or spicate branches, Inflorescence a panicle with digitately arranged spicate branches, Inflorescence with 2-10 branches, Inflorescence branches more than 10 to numerous, Lower panicle branches whorled, Inflorescen ce branches paired or digitate at a single node, Flowers bisexual, Spikelets sessile or subsessile, Spikelets laterally compressed, Spikelet less than 3 mm wide, Spikelets with 1 fertile floret, Spikelets with 2 florets, Spikelets solitary at rachis nodes, Spikelets all alike and fertille, Spikelets bisexual, Spikelets disarticulating above the glumes, glumes persistent, Spikelets disarticulating beneath or between the florets, Spikelets secund, in rows on one side of rachis, Rachilla or pedicel glabrous, Glumes present, empty bracts, Glumes 2 clearly present, Glumes equal or subequal, Glumes shorter than adjacent lemma, Glumes keeled or winged, Glumes 1 nerved, Lemmas thin, chartaceous, hyaline, cartilaginous, or membranous, Lemma coriaceous, firmer or thicker in texture than the glumes, Lemma 3 nerved, Lemma glabrous, Lemma body or surface hairy, Lemma apex acute or acuminate, Lemma distinctly awned, more than 2-3 mm, Lemma with 3 awns, Lemma awn less than 1 cm long, Lemma awn 1-2 cm long, Lemma awned from tip, Lemma awns straight or curved to base, Lemma margins thin, lying flat, Lemma straight, Callus or base of lemma evidently hairy, Callus hairs shorter than lemma, Palea present, well developed, Palea membranous, hyaline, Palea shorter than lemma, Palea about equal to lemma, Palea 2 nerved or 2 keeled, Stamens 2, Stamens 3, Styles 2-fid, deeply 2-branched, Stigmas 2, Fruit - caryopsis, Caryopsis ellipsoid, longitudinally grooved, hilum long-linear.

Trichloris pluriflora es una especie de pastos gramíneos originarios de Estados Unidos, México, Guatemala, Ecuador, Perú, Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina y Cuba.

Trichloris pluriflora là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Hòa thảo. Loài này được E.Fourn. miêu tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1886.