This small leaf-warbler is known only from Kolombangara in the Solomon Islands. It inhabits mossy forest above about 1,200 m, with a dark cap and yellow eyebrow and underparts.
A small warbler with a dark cap and eye stripe, a yellow eyebrow and underparts, chestnut-tinged upperparts, and pale bill and legs.
In mossy montane forest, it forages low on branches, trunks, and near the ground, alone or in pairs. It sometimes joins mixed-species flocks. Records are above about 1,200 m, and its call is a quiet “tzik.”
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.