This small arboreal rodent has a charcoal-gray back and a gray underside covered with cream hairs. It lives in mountain forests and uses echolocation to sense its surroundings.
Its dorsal fur is charcoal gray; the slate-gray underside is covered with creamy-white hairs. Yellowish-white hairs cover the tops of the hind feet, and its skull is large within the genus.
It is reported to be arboreal and to use echolocation. Specimens used in a Hubei study came from 37 sites at 414–1,757 m, in a region of evergreen and deciduous broadleaf mountain forests.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.