This vlei rat lives in moist grassland and wetlands. Its molars have repeated transverse ridges, and it feeds on grass stems and shoots.
Its molars have a series of transverse, plate-like ridges, a characteristic feature of vlei rats.
It lives in moist grassland, wetlands, and marshes, feeding on stems and shoots of grasses, restios, and shrubs. Some South African occurrence records and taxonomic boundaries remain uncertain.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.