They are long slender snakes with long necks and big heads. The head is covered in small scales and the lips are prominently pitted.
Many specimens have a pale vertebral stripe.
They appear to be restricted to a very small area of open eucalypt woodland savanna. This is one of the smallest varieties of carpet pythons. This is a calm and confident type of carpet python. Some Irian Jaya carpets are flashy, beautiful carpets, others may be colored in more muted earth tones. All have well-defined and contrasting patterns all their lives.