A hummingbird of shrub patches in the southwestern Ecuadorian Andes. Males have a blue throat, while females show grey and white areas on the throat.
Males have a blue throat and green head and back. In female plumage, the chin and upper throat are dusky grey, contrasting with a whitish lower throat and green back.
While feeding, it often clings sideways or upside down at flower corollas. Chuquiraga jussieui was reported as its main feeding plant, though other shrubs were also used.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.