This honeyeater lives in the mountains of western New Guinea. A regional field guide describes a grey, streaked bird with rufous flanks and red eyes.
The guide describes the bird as grey and streaked above, with rufous flanks and reddish eyes.
The guide records it in montane forest and regrowth from 1,300 to 2,500 m, using the middle and upper levels of the forest.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.