The Afroalpine Vlei Rat occurs on Mount Kenya and the Aberdare Range in central Kenya. It has shaggy tawny-brown fur and creamy-buff patches behind the ears, and lives in open heath and grassland above the tree line.
It is robust, with shaggy tawny-brown fur, creamy-buff patches behind the ears, and dark-gray fur on the underside.
It lives in open heath and grassland above the tree line.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.