This tiny flycatcher, about 9.5 cm long, has a rufous crown, pale cheeks edged in black and a yellow underside. It searches for insects in the understorey of humid montane forest and tall second growth.
About 9.5 cm long. Its upperparts are yellow-green, with a rufous crown and pale cheeks edged in black. The dark wings have two yellowish bars; the throat is whitish and the underside yellow.
At about 2,000–2,100 m in eastern Ecuador, it foraged in the lower and middle vegetation layers around bamboo, forest borders and second growth. Observed attacks included attempts to take small arthropods from leaf undersides.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.