This barbet is about 18.5 cm long. Males have a red crown and females a pale one; both have an olive body with an orange throat and breast.
It is about 18.5 cm long, mostly olive, with an orange throat and breast. The male’s crown is scarlet; the female’s is pale.
It inhabits lowland Amazonian floodplain and várzea forest and is considered uncommon in Peru, especially in Loreto and Ucayali.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.