The Fire-tufted Barbet is a green forest bird with red bristles beside its bill, feeding on fruit and insects on the Malay Peninsula and Sumatra.
It has a gray face, yellow throat, and red bristle-like feathers beside the bill. The male also has red on the crown; the female does not.
It forages in forest canopies and along edges, eating fruit and larger arthropods such as insects.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.