They have a flat body which is covered in granular scales and a flattened triangular shaped head.

Unlike other Platysaurus species the females and juveniles of the ocellated flat lizard do not have three lateral white stripes on the dorsum.

[3] The ocellated flat lizard lives in woodlands with quartzite rocks in the Chimanimani Mountains of eastern Zimbabwe and western Mozambique.

[4] Ocellated flat lizards eat beetles and plant matters (flowers, leaves, and seeds).

However males engage in competition over space and access to females and display by exposing their brightly colored bellies by tilting sideways, or lift the head and shoulders up on stiffened front legs, showing off the bright colours of the throat and chest.