The head length is equal to its width, with a pointed snout projecting beyond its mouth and the skin is covered in smooth warts.

It lacks a tympanum and the paratoid glands are large and reach the base of the arm on the sides.

[3] The natural habitats of the Chrinda toad are lowland and montane evergreen forests where it lives in leaf-litter or hides in or under rotten logs.

[1] The adult Chirinda toads tend to hide within the leaf litter on the forest floor.

[2] It is threatened by habitat loss caused by agricultural encroachment, wood extraction, and expanding human settlements.