A small mouse found in the forests of Borneo.
Three adult specimens from Sabah had head-and-body lengths of 66–80 mm and tails 85–91 mm long.
At Bundu Tuhan on Mount Kinabalu it has been collected in montane oak forest mixed with hill dipterocarp forest.
The upperparts are bright buffy brown and the underparts dark grey washed with buff.
The tail is hairy and ends in a brush of hairs about 6 mm long.
The tops of the forefeet are white; the hindfeet are white or have a narrow brown strip down the middle.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.