This medium-sized mouse has a patchy range in eastern Australia. It rests in a grass nest by day and feeds at night on seeds, grass, fungi, and insects.
Its back is chestnut, its belly gray, and its feet pale gray with a fine fringe of white hairs beyond the claws. The tail is shorter than the body and sparsely haired.
It rests in a grass nest during the day and feeds at night on seeds, grass stems, fungi, and insects.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.