Their color is brown above, with rather indistinct darker spots; rarely, they are uniform pinkish, sometimes with a light vertebral band; a dark cross-band occurs between the eyes; a black band is found along the canthus rostralis, and a black temporal spot is seen.

This frog can live in secondary forest but scientists consider it unlikely that it can survive in heavily disturbed habitats.

That range contains at least one protected park, Malabar Wildlife Sanctuary, where approximately 50% of the frogs are estimated to live.

[1] Other threats to this frog include road collisions and habitat loss from conversion of forest to agriculture and the building of dams and linear infrastructure.

Landslide prevention that involves shoring up roadsides with concrete can fill in the cracks that the frogs would use to breed.

It is possible that noise pollution interferes with the frog's breeding behavior by obscuring the sound of males calling.