Adult males have a green head, throat and chest, with a violet sheen on the throat and upper breast; the upperparts are olive. The species uses evergreen and riverine forest, sometimes miombo, and feeds on nectar and insects. The profile lists Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Zambia.
The adult male has a green head, throat and chest, a violet sheen on the throat and upper breast, and olive upperparts.
It uses evergreen and riverine forest and sometimes miombo woodland. Its food includes nectar and insects such as termites and spiders.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.