This Sulawesi rat has rich chestnut upperparts and sides, ochre underparts, and a sparsely haired blackish-brown tail. A species account associates it with lowland evergreen rainforest.
The upperparts and sides are rich chestnut, with darker tips on the longer hairs. The underside is ochre, and the sparsely haired tail is uniformly blackish brown.
ITIS lists it as a lowland species of tropical lowland evergreen rainforest. ITIS also says that detailed ecology and range information is otherwise unavailable beyond specimens from the type locality and subfossils on the southwestern peninsula.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.