Shell cylindrical, length moderate, but rather variable in size and shape; sculptured with weak axial riblets below suture; apertural dentition 3-fold: 1) a low parietal lamella; 2) a simple mid-labral tooth; 3) a low, shelf-like columella lamella; umbilicus narrow or closed. Evidently rather variable in size, length 4.0- 6.5 mm. Head-foot yellow to orange with bright orange upper tentacles.
Widely distributed from Zimbabwe, the Limpopo Province, Cauteng, Mpumalanga and southern Mozambique to the eastern Cape. Evidently not common in KwaZulu-Natal, recorded from montane forests on the Drakensberg escarpment (Royal Natal National Park), in the Thukela Valley near Kranskop and around Lake Sibaya, three markedly different environments. In moist forest leaf-litter, and under stones and logs in relatively dry, savanna-thicket mosaic.
Very similar to 3-toothed specimens of G.johannesburgensis, but the columella lamella of that species is stronger and more triangular. Gulella hickeyana (Melvill & Ponsonby, 1901) from the Biggarsberg, is a synonym.