This small bird occurs on the Pacific slopes of Colombia and Ecuador. It lives in wet forest understory; adults have grey heads and breasts with ochre-brown lowerparts.
Described adult males have grey heads and breasts, an ochre-to-cinnamon lower belly, and black bars on the flanks. The described adult females also have a grey throat and breast, an ochre lower belly, and barred brown flanks.
On Ecuador's Pacific slope it inhabits humid forest understory, sometimes among ferns and in broader-leaved, more primary vegetation.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.