This vole is endemic to Taiwan’s mountains. It lives in alpine meadows and along conifer-forest margins, where it eats shoots, stems, and leaves of alpine grasses.
Its soft back fur has brown tips and gray bases. It has small eyes, large round ears, and a relatively short snout.
Its main habitats are alpine meadows and conifer-forest margins. It feeds on tender shoots, stems, and leaves of Yushan cane and alpine silvergrass.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.