This hummingbird lives in humid Pacific lowland forests of northwestern Ecuador and western Colombia. Males have a blue-purple patch on the chest.
It is green with a white belly. The male has a blue-purple chest patch; in the female, the patch may be smaller or absent.
It feeds on nectar while hovering at flowers. It uses very humid forest and forest edges from near sea level to about 200 m.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.