Vordermann's flying squirrel is a gliding squirrel of forests on the Malay Peninsula and Borneo.
Its back is dark with rusty hair tips. The belly is buff to whitish, the cheeks are orange, and a black ring surrounds each eye.
In the Malay Peninsula, nests have been found 0.3–6 m above ground. Litters contain one to three young, most commonly two.
It eats seeds and fruit.
Head-and-body length is 120–123 mm, and tail length is 110–120 mm.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.