[1][2] The specific name, broughami, is in honor of British botanist Henry Brougham Guppy.

[1][2] Type locality of Silybura broughami = "Sirumallay hills (Madura district), 5500 feet elevation".Type locality of Silybura levingii = "Lower Pulney hills (Madura district), 4000 feet elevation".

[2] The dorsum of U. broughami is brown, with transverse series of small yellow black-edged ocelli.

The rostral is laterally compressed, obtusely keeled above, two fifths the length of the shielded part of the head, the portion visible from above much longer than its distance from the frontal.

The tail is obliquely truncate, flat above, with strongly pluricarinate scales.