The inornata subspecies of the Speckled Hummingbird has dark sides to the head and a bronze-green back. In Argentina's Salta and Jujuy provinces, it uses high-elevation scrub and forest.
Its back is a bright bronze-green, and the sides of the head are dark. The account notes a whitish line behind the eye, an ochre underside, and green spots on the throat.
The Argentine SIB account places this subspecies in scrub and forest from 500 to 3,000 m elevation.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.