This leaf-warbler was described from limestone karst mountains in Vietnam and Laos. The paper records it in evergreen and semi-evergreen broadleaf forest.
The adult description gives a yellow-green crown stripe and a prominent yellow eyebrow, with gray-green upperparts and bright yellow throat and underparts.
Records came from evergreen or semi-evergreen broadleaf forest on steep limestone karst slopes.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.