Spotted patterning appears to be a stress colouration, and unstressed individuals have a more or less uniform dark brown body, apart from a beige area in front of the eyes (1).

The B. minima adult has a flattened head and an orbital crest with large scales forming triangular plates above its eyes.

B. minima specimens sometimes have lateral yellow stripes over their basic drab grayish-brown color.

It has a relatively active habit for a chameleon and likes moving around in the low branches and leaf litter of its native rain forests.

Though they are moderately aggressive toward one another, population and densities in the wild may approach one animal per square meter.