This small honeyeater occurs in northern Cape York Peninsula, northeastern Australia. Adult males and females have the same plumage, although males are larger.
Adults have an orange-yellow moustachial stripe, a grey-olive mantle and scapulars, and a pale olive-grey breast with a yellowish wash. The sexes have identical plumage.
It uses open woodland and shrubland. A compiled ecological account classifies its diet as omnivorous.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.