[2] Spineless forest lizard is one of four Calotes species endemic to Sri Lanka, which all share a common set of characteristics.

These include a relatively short head, with swollen cheeks, backwards, or backwards and downwards pointing scales on the side of the body, a tail that is strongly swollen at the base in fully grown adult males.

This lizard is patterned with a mixture of pale moss-green, dark green and brown indistinct stripes on its body, extending from the back down the sides to the belly, and pale moss-green and dark brown to black rings around its limbs and tail.

This cryptic colouration helps camouflage the small lizard from potential predators in the treetops of its habitat.

[citation needed] Highly arboreal, very rarely comes to the ground, this species is known to be diurnal.