A barbet of montane forest on the eastern Andes. Its facial and chest colors vary between sexes and among subspecies.
It is about 16 cm long, with moss-green upperparts. A male's moustache-like mark is blue or yellow depending on subspecies; females have a blue face, throat, and upper breast, a red chest crescent, and streaked underparts.
It is recorded in montane forest on the eastern Andes of Peru and Bolivia, at about 750–2,100 m.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.