This striped grass mouse is centered on Angola in the available accounts. A specialist book describes one stripe down the back, while warning that its separation from related species remains uncertain.
The specialist book describes a single mid-dorsal stripe, sometimes flanked by faint lateral stripes.
A 2025 museum-collection paper reports that it is associated preferentially with savanna-type habitats, while also noting that ecological studies of the species are scarce.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.