This rat is recorded in moist mountain forest in eastern New Guinea. It has a thick, soft coat, medium sepia-brown above and gray-buff below.
The pelage is soft, thick, and woolly, medium sepia above and gray-buff below. It has a long, narrow foot; each tail scale bears three hairs.
HMW records moist tropical mountain forest at 2,300–2,400 m as the habitat.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.