This parrot occurs on Grand Comoro and Anjouan in the Comoros. It is strongly associated with evergreen forest and also visits cacao plantations and agroforests on Grand Comoro; much of its wild ecology remains unknown.
Adults are pale brown, with no grey on the primaries. The bare eye-ring is grey, the eye dark brown, and the bill brown to grey.
It is strongly associated with evergreen forest but visits cacao plantations; on Grand Comoro it is also recorded in agroforests and degraded woodland. The account lists small seeds and young cacao pods as wild foods.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.