This mouse has abundant spine-like hairs on a gray to light-brown back and a white belly. It is recorded among rocks in mopane woodland, is nocturnal, and eats insects and seeds.
Abundant spiny hairs cover the back and rump. The back is gray to light brown, the flanks are pale, and the belly is white.
It inhabits mopane woodland and is associated with rocks and boulders. It is nocturnal and hides in rock crevices by day. Its diet consists mainly of insects and seeds; beetles, ants and larvae are among the foods recorded in Malawi.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.