This tanager has a gray head and yellow-orange underparts. Peruvian accounts place it in the middle levels of floodplain forest.
The upperparts are olive-yellow, the underparts yellow-orange, and the head gray with a whitish throat and gray crest. The sexes are similar.
Peruvian accounts place it in the middle levels of floodplain forest. Records include Loreto and Ucayali; the albicollis form is also noted in Madre de Dios.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.