Males have a throat that can glow orange in good light and a pale band across the breast. Females have a yellowish throat mottled with chestnut.
The male has bright green upperparts and an orange throat that glitters in good light; the throat can appear black in other light. A broad buff band crosses the breast. The female’s throat is yellowish and mottled chestnut.
It inhabits humid mountain-forest edges, grasslands, and shrub-covered slopes at 2,000–3,200 m. It descends to lower elevations during the rainy season.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.