This lorikeet occurs in northern Australia. Adult males have a blue-black head with fine violet-blue streaks and a red-orange collar around the back of the neck. It uses riverside eucalypt woodland, wetlands, and scrub, and feeds on nectar, fruit, and insects.
The adult male has a blue-black head with fine violet-blue streaks and a red-orange collar around the nape that joins the red-orange breast. Females are similar; juveniles are duller with a narrower, less distinct collar.
It uses riverside eucalypt woodland and mixed eucalypt-melaleuca forest, as well as wetlands, scrub, heath, and town edges. It feeds on nectar, fruit, and insects and moves among woodland types as flowering changes.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.