This large hummingbird has a dark green body and blue wings in the male; the female is green above and rufous below. In Bolivia it uses highland grassland and forest edges.
The male is dark green with sapphire-blue wings. The female is green above and rufous below; both sexes have a straight black bill.
In Bolivia it uses wet shrubby puna, Polylepis woodland, elfin-forest edges, and clearings; it visits flowers of shrubs and herbs.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.