This small lorikeet is native to Rimatara. It is often recorded in plantations and around villages where flowers and fruit are plentiful, and feeds on nectar.
Adults have green upperparts and wings, a blue-violet nape, a red face and underparts, a yellow-green rump, purple thighs, and a red tail.
On Rimatara it is most often recorded in mixed horticultural woodland, including coconut and falcataria plantations, and around villages. It feeds on nectar from many flowers.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.