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A buff-yellow-pigmented bacterium, strain K22-20(T), which was isolated from a cold desert of the Indian Himalayas, was subjected to a polyphasic taxonomic study. Phenotypic and chemical properties of strain K22-20(T) were consistent with its classification in the genus Ornithinimicrobium. The major fatty acids of the strain were iso-C-17:1 omega 9C (cis-15-methyl 7-hexadecenoic acid), iso-C-15:0 (13-methyl tetradecanoic acid), iso-C-16:0 (14-methyl pentadecanoic acid) and iso:C-17:0 (15-methyl hexadecanoic acid). The G+C content of the genomic DNA was 71 mol%. According to 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis, strain K22-20T was closely related to Ornithinimicrobium humiphilum HKI 0124(T) (97-7%). However, genomic relatedness between strain K22-20T and O. humiphilum IMTCC 6406 T, as revealed by DNA-DNA hybridization, was 64-5%. Based on the polyphasic data, strain K22-20T (=MTCC 6545(T) =DSM 17687(T) = JCM 12763 T) represents a novel species of the genus Ornithinimicrobium, for which the name Omithinimicrobium kibberense sp. nov. is proposed.