The Velvet African Climbing Mouse is known from limited records around Brazzaville. It has soft russet-brown fur above, grayish-white underparts and a black eye-ring extending onto the muzzle. HMW 2017 listed eight specimens, with the last collected in 1966.
The short, soft dorsal fur is russet brown and the underside grayish white. A black eye-ring extends onto the muzzle; there is no mid-dorsal stripe. The long tail is described as prehensile.
The account describes it as terrestrial. Its known locality is around the Brazzaville Zoological Gardens, situated in sand forest at about 300 m.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.