Annual; culms 6-30cm high, usually erect. Leaf-blades 2-6cm long, 0.5-2 mm wide, rough on the margins. Inflorescence a simple, erect or slightly nodding raceme, rarely sparingly branched, 3-12cm long, usually partly included in the uppermost leaf-sheath; pedicels 0.4-0.6mm long. Spikelets 6-11mm long (excluding the awns), breaking up at maturity below each fertile floret; most florets fertile, the upper 2(-3) gradually reduced and male or sterile. Lower glume 1.5 -4 mm long, from just less than half to three-quarters of the length of the upper; upper glume 3.5-5mm long; fertile lemma 4.5-7mm long, with an awn usually 1-2 times as long, finely 5-nerved, scabrid or pubescent; anthers l(-3), only one of them perfect, included at anthesis.

Fl. & Fr. Per.: April-May.

Type: Iran, Buhse (LE).

Distribution: Pakistan (Baluchistan & N. W. F. P.); Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan; southern USSR.

Very similar to Vulpia myuros but differing by its less branched inflorescence, much longer lower glume and shorter pedicels. It is a desert grass, rather common in parts of Baluchistan. 1000-1900m.