Loosely tufted perennial; culms knotty at the base, 35-80 cm high, erect, geniculately ascending or procumbent in the lower part and rooting from the nodes. Leaf-blades 5-25 cm long, 1.5-3 mm wide, scaberulous; ligule c.l mm long, obtuse. Panicle 10-25 cm long, nodding, loose, the spikelets not or only slightly clustered on the long flexuous primary branches. Spikelets 34 mm long; glumes subequal, 25-3.4 mm long, lanceolate-elliptic, acute, three-quarters to four-fifths as long as the spikelet; lemma as long as the spikelet, thinly hairy in the lower part, minute¬ly notched at the tip and bearing a fine awn 8-18 mm long.

Type: India, Duthie 10128 (K).

Distribution: Kashmir; Afghanistan; Himalayas.

Similar in habit to Muhlenbergia duthieana but has relatively shorter glumes, a slightly longer spikelet and a looser, more open panicle. It differs form Muhlenbergia huegelii by its less robust habit, narrower leaves and surface-creeping stolons.