This small tapaculo is about 11 cm long and 18.9 g. It occurs in central Brazilian gallery forest; the ICMBio guide describes it as wary and poorly known.
The upperparts are dark gray and the underparts paler. The lower mandible and legs are light yellow-brown, while the bill is dark.
It uses dark, dense forest and is found from ground level to low in flooded riparian woods. It may also use dense secondary growth beside streams.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.