This rice rat is known from only two localities in Bahia and Minas Gerais, Brazil. It has buff to orange-brown upperparts and has been collected in seasonally flooded forest and grassland.
Its fur is coarse, with grizzled buff to orange-brown upperparts. The underside ranges from gray to buff or yellowish gray.
Specimens have been collected in seasonally flooded semideciduous forest and in wet grassland dotted with palms along headwaters.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.