This West African fruit bat has dense, silky fur and a throat ruff. In adult males, the ruff is seasonally stained yellow-orange.
The coat is dense and silky, rich dark rusty to medium yellowish brown on the back and paler and grayer on the shoulders, neck, and head. Adults and young of both sexes have a woolly throat ruff. In adult males, coarse brushy hairs on the chin, throat, and upper chest are seasonally stained yellow-orange by secretions from underlying glands. Young are darker than adults.
It uses a wide variety of forested habitats. It is absent from savanna zones in the dry season (January–April), but is found in both the moist Rainforest–Savanna Mosaic and drier Guinea Savanna zones at the start of the wet season (April–May).
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.