This barbet is recorded in the forests of Langbiang World Biosphere Reserve in Lam Dong, Vietnam. It eats mainly fruit and flowers, as well as insects.
It has a green body, red forehead and nape, golden crown and throat, a black stripe through the eye, white lower face, and blue feathers behind the ear. The sexes look similar.
It lives in evergreen forest and mixed broadleaf-conifer forest. It eats mainly fruit and flowers, along with insects such as ants and beetles.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.