This hummingbird lives in Colombia's Andes. Males have a violet-blue forehead, while females are paler green with green spotting.
The male is bronzy green with a violet-blue forehead, emerald throat and dark forked tail. The female is greener and paler, with green spotting below and white tail tips.
In humid cloud forest, forest edges and secondary growth, it visits flowers in the lower and middle forest layers and also catches small insects.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.