In order to select good germplasm for improvement of Yunnan malting barley, agronomic characteristics of 107 accession of malting barley from different ecological regions were evaluated and classified. The results showed that the malting barley cultivars from Yunnan have the common characters of long maturity, strong tillering, high plant, wide flag leaves, middle spike length, grain number per spike, grain weight per spike, 1000-grain weight, and dry panicle grain/item. The cultivars from abroad have middle height and compact plant type, long and narrow leaves, high single panicle grain weight, 1000-grain weight, middle panicle grain/item. Nineteen cultivars with good morphological characteristics were selected for possible parents to improve productivity of barley in Yunnan. Through a cluster analysis, the material could be divided into 4 groups with different characteristics in which differences morphological character was obvious. It would be advantageous to the choice of breeding material.