This canastero occurs locally in the central and southern Peruvian Andes. Its orange-rufous throat and pale eyebrow are distinctive.
It has an orange-rufous throat, a broad grayish-white eyebrow, and pale streaks on its dark brown head and back. The sexes have similar plumage.
It uses páramo and puna grassland, including tall bunch-grass near the timberline, and gleans arthropods from the ground or low vegetation.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.