[1][2] Scientists consider this frog a sister taxon to Sylvirana nigrovittata.

This frog is medium-brown in color with small dark spots.

It has a wide, dark stripe down each side of its body, from nose to groin.

[3] This frog has vomerine teeth in its jaw and disks on its toes for climbing.

[3] The scientists who wrote the first paper about this frog named it malayana because it is the only species among its close relatives that lives in Peninsular Malaysia.