Sorghum trichocladum (Rupr. ex Hack.) Kuntze

Holcus trichocladus (Rupr.) Nash
Andropogon trichocladus Rupr.; Hack, in DC, Monog. Phan. 6 : 525. 1889. Sorgumtrichocladum Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 792, 1891.
Stems 1-1.5 m. tall, densely barbed at the nodes; leaf-sheaths glabrous, except at the usually pubescent apex; blades lanceolate-linear, up to 4 dm. long and 1 cm. wide, acuminate, softly pubescent on both surfaces; panicle 1-2 dm. long, the smooth fiexuous branches in 4's-lO's, about equal in length, capillary; racemes of 5-several internodes, pubescent with P-olden-brown hairs, the internodes and pedicels exceeding one half the length of the sessile spikelets, glabrous on the face, the back and margins copiously pubescent with golden-brown hairs; sessile spikelet brown-purple, about 5 mm. long, oblong, the first scale emarginate at the somewhat hyaline truncate apex, strigose on the back with brown hairs, the second scale as long as the first, obtuse, setose above, the third scale ciliate, the fourth scale acutely 2-toothed for about one third its length, bearing a rather stout perfect awn 1.5-2 cm. long, the brown column straight, glabrous, about equaling the nearly straight subula; pedicellate spikelet reduced to a single narrowly linear scale which is glabrous and obtuse.
Type locality : Mexico. DiSTRiEtJTiON : Mexico.

Sorghum trichocladum là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Hòa thảo. Loài này được (Hack.) Kuntze miêu tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1891.