This small shrew is recorded from the Ethiopian Highlands. Its original description says the back is pale grayish brown and the belly whitish.
The dorsal coat is pale grayish brown, with hairs dark gray at the base and light brown at the tips. The underside is whitish and the tail relatively short.
Collection localities include a stream bank in an Erica shrub and grassland mosaic, and an Afroalpine grassland with giant lobelias at another site. These describe where specimens were collected.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.