Males are purple with a black throat and yellow legs, while females have green upperparts and a greenish-blue head. The bird feeds on nectar, berries, and insects in the canopy and at forest edges.
Males are purple with black wings, tail, and throat, a long black decurved bill, and bright yellow legs. Females have green upperparts, a greenish-blue head, a buff throat, and bluish underparts streaked with buff.
It feeds on nectar, berries, and insects in the forest canopy and along forest edges.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.