This small antelope has a speckled gray-to-chestnut back and a whitish underside. Only males have horns; it occurs in eastern and southern Africa.
Its back is speckled gray to chestnut, its sides are paler, and its underside is whitish. Only males have backward-slanting, ridged horns.
It uses thick, dry undergrowth and riparian reed scrub. Its diet is mainly fallen leaves, with buds, shoots, fruit, and fungi also reported.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.