This small honeyeater is about 11 cm long. It is grayish olive, with a short tail and yellowish eye ring, in New Guinea forest and forest margins.
It is about 11 cm long, with a grayish olive body, short tail, yellowish eye ring, and slightly decurved bill.
It uses forest and forest margins and is recorded from about 100 to 1,750 m in the Mimika region.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.