This vole is recorded from two sites in Luozha County in Xizang, China. Its back is gray-brown, its underside gray-white, and the upper and lower sides of its tail differ in color. Sites include mixed conifer-broadleaf forest and shrubland near farms.
The dorsal fur is gray-brown and the ventral fur gray-white. The upper tail is blackish gray and the underside gray-white, without a sharp boundary.
At the Luozha County sites, the species was recorded in mixed conifer-broadleaf forest at 3,100–3,300 m and in shrubland near farmland.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.