A pipit of New Guinea's high alpine grasslands. It favors short grass and places with nearby bushes.
Its back is brown with faint streaks, and its dark wings have pale edges.
It occurs in short grass and near bushes in alpine grassland on New Guinea.
Oiseaux.net describes it foraging for invertebrates on the ground and lists alpine grassland at about 2,550–4,600 m.
The underparts are cream to buff, with a pale eyebrow above the eye.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.