BirdLife South Africa's 2025 account describes a population restricted in South Africa to oNgoye Forest. It uses Cryptolybia olivacea and says the wider group's taxonomy remains unsettled. Local birds have bronzy-green upperparts and use the forest canopy.
For the South African population, the account says the sexes are alike, with a dark olive-brown forehead to nape, bronzy-green upperparts, light-green throat and belly, and red eyes.
The account places it in tall-canopied coastal scarp forest at oNgoye. Outside breeding, it occurs in small groups in the upper canopy, then forms pairs for breeding. It may depend particularly on wild-fig fruit.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.