This small barbet is recorded in miombo woodland on Angola's interior plateau. It has a brown body, a pale yellow face, and similar-looking sexes.
It has a brown body and pale yellow face; the sexes look alike. The guide gives a body length of about 17–18 cm.
It occurs alone or in pairs in miombo on Angola's interior plateau, eats fruit and insects, and nests in tree cavities. The guide gives August–October as its breeding season.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.